Saturday, March 6, 2010

PANGRAMS

PANGRAMS are the sentences which contain all the letters of the alphabet. Constructing a precise but interesting Pangram is really a challenging task. The most popular pangram in English is

'A QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG'.

This pangram is also used in other ways:
'THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG' and
'A QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOGS'

As far as I know, there are no easy-to-remember meaningful 26 letter pangrams in English, although there are a few which are made up by using proper nouns, acronyms, initials and strange punctuation.
For example:  "Glum Schwartzkopf vex'd by NJ IQC".

Pangrams are mostly used by the learners of typewriting in order to get themselves familiar with all the letters, thereby speeding up their typing skills. They are also liked by those who are interested in recreational English.

Here are a few more interesting Pangrams:

The five boxing wizards jump quickly. (31 letters)

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (32 letters)

Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes. (40 letters)

Sixty zippers were quickly picked from the woven jute bag. (48 letters)

Whenever the black fox jumped the squirrel gazed suspiciously. (53 letters)


A quart jar of oil mixed with zinc oxide makes a very bright paint. (53 letters)

The job requires extra pluck and zeal from every young wage earner. (54 letters)

1 comment:

Pooja said...

Dearest Jacob ji,

Thanks for the above mentioned recreational and meaningful 'Pangrams'. It is really challenging to find a meaningful sentence with all the English alphabets.

You know, I always find 'Homonyms' and 'Homophones' very interesting and sometimes try to find out more examples of both. Here are a few examples of each as following.

Homonyms : Bank (bank of a river)
Bank (where people keep their money)

Rose (flower)
Rose (second form of rise)

Left (second form of leave)
Left (opposite of right)

Miss (unmarried girl)
Miss (eg: I miss you )

Train (A mode of transportation)
Train (to give training)

Bear (tolerate)
Bear (An animal)

Homophones : Write / Right
Except / Accept
Piece / Peace
Know / No
Carrot/ Carrat
To/ two/ too
Ceiling / Sealing
Alter / Altar

Blessings,
Pooja