Tired of the brown fox.
- GreyShuck ( @GreyShuck@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
You can’t get a lot cooler than that.
- kersploosh ( @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ) 1•1 year ago
Undoubtedly the best!
- denton ( @denton@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Did you get this from Tumblr
- GreyShuck ( @GreyShuck@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
A) I have never touched tumblr.
B) I first heard it around 30 years back, so a little before tumblr.
- denton ( @denton@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Interesting! It recently made the rounds over there
- manned_meatball ( @manned_meatball@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
I never bothered to search other sentences, but after reading them I still prefer the brown fox. There’s something about using simple words that makes it more satisfying than the others.
- withersailor ( @withersailor@aussie.zone ) 2•1 year ago
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is undoubtedly the best known pangram.
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The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
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Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
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Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
More than you ever wanted to know about pangram generation: https://medium.com/@FallingForFallacies/all-perfect-pangrams-of-english-8c8d0f621bee
- Ulu-Mulu-no-die ( @ulu_mulu@lemmy.world ) 1•1 year ago
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Ooohhh that’s why it’s used for testing fonts? TIL !
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- fubo ( @fubo@lemmy.world ) 1•1 year ago
Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx.
(A Scottish professor who starred on game shows was unsuccessful at hunting Arctic cats.)Fwd: Blackthorn PJs vex quiz gym.
(I’ve forwarded you this email about trivia-obsessed weightlifters confused by sloe pajamas.) - BobQuasit ( @BobQuasit@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
“Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz” Is the shortest of them all, as far as I know.
- Crabhands ( @Crabhands@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
- “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.”
- “Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.”
- “How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!”
- “Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack.”
- “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.”
- “Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.”
- “Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz.”
- “Five quacking zephyrs jolt my wax bed.”
- “The jay, pig, fox, zebra, and my wolves quack!”
- kersploosh ( @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ) 1•1 year ago
How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts!