a sentence which contains all the alphabet letters

#1 (**permalink**) 13-Oct-2004, 17:36

What's the English word for a sentence which contains all the alphabet letters, each letter exactly once?

Thanks,
Gad Samuel

#2 (**permalink**) 14-Oct-2004, 01:24

A sentence that contains each letter of the alphabet only once is called a perfect pangram. A pangram is a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet. As far as I know, in English, perfect pangrams can only be made by using abbreviations and/or very obscure words.

Casiopea · #3 (**permalink**) 14-Oct-2004, 05:08

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Originally Posted by rewnfloot

A sentence that contains each letter of the alphabet only once is called a perfect pangram. A pangram is a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet. As far as I know, in English, perfect pangrams can only be made by using abbreviations and/or very obscure words.

What about?

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. :D

TomBrooklyn · #4 (**permalink**) 09-Dec-2005, 21:45

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Originally Posted by Casiopea

What about? The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. :D

Not bad, Caiopea, and changing 'the' to 'a' can make for two less letters. For even one less letter than that, "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" can do the trick.

hobbes · #5 (**permalink**) 09-Dec-2005, 23:58

Here are a collection of perfect pangrams that I've found - they don't really make much sense!!

Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.
Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.
Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q.
Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox!
TV quiz drag nymphs blew JFK cox.
Q-kelt vug dwarf combs jynx phiz