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I'm sure many of us have written out "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" many times whilst testing pens, inks and papers.

 

There are alternative pangrams - sentences that use all 26 English letters. I just came across the shorter pangram "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs".

 

What other pangrams do people use? Does anyone know of a shorter pangram than "Pack my box..."?

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The five boxing wizards jump quickly.

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I never write "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" because it doesn't have a letter 's' in it, therefore it doesn't use all 26 letters of the alphabet.

 

I always write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", plus any other random sentences after that.

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Very true, Chrissy - "jumped" was brain fade on my part. I shall leave my embarrassing mistake for the whole forum to see.

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Is it really that important that all 26 letters of the alphabet are used in a sentence? After all it's fountain pens we're testing, not the keyboard of a typewriter or a laptop / PC... I also believe we get a better feel for a pen after writing several sentences. Plus I'm pretty sure there's already a similar thread covering this topic.... I'll get back with the link in a sec....

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Very true, Chrissy - "jumped" was brain fade on my part. I shall leave my embarrassing mistake for the whole forum to see.

Actually David, you're not alone and shouldn't be embarrassed. I've seen that version used by many writers. In fact it might be more common than the original

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The so called "Fox test" was used back in the days when they were testing the quality of the lines feeding teletype systems, and the machines themselves. When I started in radio, we had an AP teletype and a weather service teletype that ran 24/7. They were fed by rolls of paper or boxes of folded paper, and we went through a lot of paper. Whenever we called in a report of one problem or another, the first thing they did was to send a fox test which included a string of characters after the phrase.

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Waltz bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.

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I never write "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" because it doesn't have a letter 's' in it, therefore it doesn't use all 26 letters of the alphabet.

 

I always write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", plus any other random sentences after that.

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Maybe in here..if not.. had a wholelotta fun...........................

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I use

 

"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz",

 

because I think it has the highest intelligibility/number of letters ratio.

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The dog whirled over, quickly catching the fox mid air and thrashed him but good just for calling him a lazy so and so.

 

Mine is not shorter, but I like it and uses all 26 I believe.

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