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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103886 05/22/03 08:49 AM Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1 K kring666 OP stranger OP kring666 stranger K Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1 anyone know the shortest sentence with all 26 letters? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103887 05/22/03 09:06 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Fjord cwm glyphs quiz vext bank. (The bank was angry about the quiz on the carvings from the fjord valley.) Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103888 05/24/03 10:55 PM Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48 W websafe newbie websafe newbie W Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48 Depends on WHICH 26 letters. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103889 05/25/03 11:03 AM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk D dodyskin addict dodyskin addict D Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z , now i know my a b c won't you sing along with me? Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q but aren't they all the same length? 26 letters long. :) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103890 05/25/03 08:31 PM Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48 W websafe newbie websafe newbie W Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48 The judge gave the defendant the shortest possible sentence with all 26 letters of apology to write. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103891 05/25/03 09:33 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Is it my imagination, or did I post an reply to this thread? The thread seems to have gobbled up my reply. Weird. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103892 05/25/03 09:36 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Agggggggggggggggggggggggg! I posted on the wrong thread! Here's what I should have posted here: Worth quoting: "A pangram is a sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet. Less frequently, such sentences are called holalphabetic sentences. Interesting pangrams are generally short ones; constructing a sentence that includes the fewest repeat letters possible is a challenging task. However, pangrams that are slightly longer yet enlightening, humorous, or eccentric are noteworthy in their own right. By far the most well-known pangram is, "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." Frequently this is the sentence used to test out new typewriters, presumably because it includes every letter of the alphabet. Curiously, this sentence is often misquoted by changing "jumps" to "jumped." The past tense version, lacking an s, is not a pangram. Often, too, it is misquoted as "the lazy dog" rather than "a lazy dog." This error is not as grievous; the sentence remains a pangram, just a slightly longer one. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there are no particularly clever 26 letter pangrams in English. Constructing a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet once and no more -- essentially an anagram of the alphabet -- seems to require the use of acronyms, initials, and strange punctuation. The most interesting I've seen is, "Glum Schwartzkopf vex'd by NJ IQ." Also note the section on autograms, as that contains some autograms (sentences that self-document their letter content) that are also pangrams." http://rinkworks.com/words/pangrams.shtml Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103893 05/25/03 09:41 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont well, I did find it just plain interesting... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103894 05/26/03 09:28 PM Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48 W websafe newbie websafe newbie W Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48 Maybe Wordwind was reading threads boustrophedonically! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: shortest sentence with all 26 letters #103895 05/27/03 08:14 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... I've never bousted a single phedon--knowingly, that is. Edit: Zed, I changed the above. Had typed hastily and just realized that I included a few unnecessary letters! :) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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