Re: Pangrams
- From: "Will" <billrigby@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 23 Dec 2005 01:37:49 -0800
Bob Cunningham wrote:
> I've been reading a book called _Ella Minnow Pea_, by Mark
> Dunn. Central to the plot is a pangram, which probably most
> of us know is a sentence containing every letter of the
> alphabet at least once.
>
> Early on, the book has someone asserting that the shortest
> possible pangram is
>
> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
>
> I'm only about half way through the book, but I strongly
> suspect that the plot will hinge upon someone coming up with
> a shorter pangram. Would anyone--someone who hasn't read
> the book--like to guess what it will be?
>
> I learned in the 1930s of one that's shorter:
>
> Quick jumps vex the lazy brown fox dog.
>
> I think I've seen shorter ones than that from time to time,
> but if I remember right they all had some feature that made
> their validity questionable, like for example they didn't
> really make sense or they used initialisms.
>
> (Speaking of making sense, I assume that "fox dog" could
> conceivably be used for a dog that's used to hunt foxes.)
It's more likely that you got your wucking murds fuddled. A "dog fox"
is a male fox, as opposed to a female "vixen".
Will.
.
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