Welcome to Day 10 of my July trivia posts.*
Trivia: The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.
This is true. But it barely scratches the surface.
A sentence that uses all twenty-six letters is a pangram. The holy grail of pangrams is a sentence that uses each letter only once. These are difficult to do.
People create new pangrams all the time, so you can use any number of sentences to practice your typing skills. Here are some examples:
- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
- Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
- The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
- Sympathizing would fix Quaker objectives.
- A wizard’s job is to vex chumps quickly in fog.
- Watch “Jeopardy!”, Alex Trebek’s fun TV quiz game.
- By Jove, my quick study of lexicography won a prize!
Here is a perfect pangram (each letter only used once.) These sentences tend to be awkward.
Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD., bags few lynx.
Why not create some pangrams yourself? This could be a fun game for kids and for adults who like words.
I give this trivia a 10 out of 10. The trivia was true, and the background was fun.
*I’m doing something hard (for me) in July that I don’t want to talk about until August (in case I fail.) This something takes a lot of time, so I’m simplifying my July posts. I’m using a list of trivia that Aunt Patti emailed me. Each day, I will explore a trivia fact and bring you the truth, not just the clickbait. I might even rate the trivia. I think this will be fun because I love exploring new topics and sharing them with you. I hope you learn something too. If you do, why not share it with a friend. One of my goals is to get more readers, and word of mouth is a great way to do that. Many thanks.