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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet.
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- noun A
sentence that contains everyletter of thealphabet , such as "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" in English.
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A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once.
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Nollop is named after Nevin Nollop, the genius behind the typing class pangram which is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet ‘the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog,’ a sentence which uses all 26 letters of the alphabet to best advantage.
The WritingYA Weblog: Taking the Words Out of their Mouths tanita davis 2007
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Nollop is named after Nevin Nollop, the genius behind the typing class pangram which is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet ‘the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog,’ a sentence which uses all 26 letters of the alphabet to best advantage.
Archive 2007-04-01 a. fortis 2007
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I’ll let font designer Mark Simonson answer that one: “A pangram is a sentence or phrase which contains every letter of the alphabet.”
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Pangram haikus 2005
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It is named for its most famous inhabitant, Nevin Nollop, who developed the popular pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
Archive 2009-05-01 ____Maggie 2009
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It is named for its most famous inhabitant, Nevin Nollop, who developed the popular pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
Ella Minnow Pea (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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This is probably the most famous English language pangram a sentence using all 26 letters in the alphabet.
Josh Sawislak: Butts in Chairs and Fingers on Keys Josh Sawislak 2011
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This is probably the most famous English language pangram a sentence using all 26 letters in the alphabet.
Josh Sawislak: Butts in Chairs and Fingers on Keys Josh Sawislak 2011
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For a second I mistakenly thought this was a pangram.
Obama's insipid emails are annoying Leon Wieseltier. Ann Althouse 2009
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There is competition on this month from www.adventureboxbooks.com which we've had fun doing, as you have write a pangram and try to win a dinotopia dvd.
Deleted Scene from Dinotopia James Gurney 2009
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Pangrams, of course, are sentences that contain each letter of the alphabet at least once, of which the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is surely the most famous.
oroboros commented on the word pangram
A list of words containing all the letters of the alphabet: e.g., waqf & jynx & speltz & vugh & mockingbird.
--Chris Cole, Wordplay
May 23, 2008
whichbe commented on the word pangram
A sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008
sionnach commented on the word pangram
Z. Badger: thy vixen jumps quick at fowl.
I, quartz pyx, who fling muck beds.
Export my fund! Quiz black whigs.
Get nymph; quiz sad brow; fix luck.
January 29, 2009
vsrixyz commented on the word pangram
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs!
March 30, 2009
TankHughes commented on the word pangram
When people say "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" they are adding 2 extraneous letters to the pangram. One of those the's should be an a. 33 letters vs 35.
February 25, 2016
alexz commented on the word pangram
Anagram solver to the rescue
veldt grimps jynx waqf zho buck
February 26, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word pangram
Buck could be a verb in that. not sure what else to do to make it a sentence. It's a Variety headline at best.
(See sticks nix hick pix)
February 26, 2016
alexz commented on the word pangram
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&t=1000&a=n
"An anagram for the entire alphabet is known as a pangram. Here are some pangrams:
Mr. Jock TV quiz PhD bags few lynx
Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz
Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q
Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck"
February 26, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word pangram
Okay.
Veldt = field
Jynx = a bird
Grimp = to climb
Waqf = an endowment of land
Zho = dzo = a hybrid yak/cow male
Buck = adult male animal
A field bird climbs a land yak man. Okay.
February 26, 2016
madmouth commented on the word pangram
this is a classic quantity-over-quality situation
February 26, 2016
bilby commented on the word pangram
From the Twitter feed:
When zombies arrive, quickly fax judge Pat
February 27, 2016
bilby commented on the word pangram
That's fine, but I suspect it would take weeks to find a fax machine these days.
February 27, 2016
tbtabby commented on the word pangram
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
August 27, 2020