"the Quick Brown Fox..." - Alternative Pangrams

[David_W]

I'm sure many of us have written out "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" many times whilst testing pens, inks and papers.

 

There are alternative pangrams - sentences that use all 26 English letters. I just came across the shorter pangram "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs".

 

What other pangrams do people use? Does anyone know of a shorter pangram than "Pack my box..."?

[Ray Ulrich]

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

 

[David_W]

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

 

Very neat: 29 letters (two each of a, o and u).

[Brian K]

The five boxing wizards jump quickly.

[Chrissy]

I never write "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" because it doesn't have a letter 's' in it, therefore it doesn't use all 26 letters of the alphabet.

 

I always write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", plus any other random sentences after that.

[David_W]

Very true, Chrissy - "jumped" was brain fade on my part. I shall leave my embarrassing mistake for the whole forum to see.

[I.M.]

Is it really that important that all 26 letters of the alphabet are used in a sentence? After all it's fountain pens we're testing, not the keyboard of a typewriter or a laptop / PC... I also believe we get a better feel for a pen after writing several sentences. Plus I'm pretty sure there's already a similar thread covering this topic.... I'll get back with the link in a sec....

[I.M.]

here we go:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/251594-do-you-have-a-test-phrase/

[Chrissy]

Very true, Chrissy - "jumped" was brain fade on my part. I shall leave my embarrassing mistake for the whole forum to see.

Actually David, you're not alone and shouldn't be embarrassed. I've seen that version used by many writers. In fact it might be more common than the original

Edited August 25, 2014 by Chrissy

[Ron Z]

The so called "Fox test" was used back in the days when they were testing the quality of the lines feeding teletype systems, and the machines themselves. When I started in radio, we had an AP teletype and a weather service teletype that ran 24/7. They were fed by rolls of paper or boxes of folded paper, and we went through a lot of paper. Whenever we called in a report of one problem or another, the first thing they did was to send a fox test which included a string of characters after the phrase.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Waltz bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.

Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.

[william2001]

I never write "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" because it doesn't have a letter 's' in it, therefore it doesn't use all 26 letters of the alphabet.

 

I always write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", plus any other random sentences after that.

Nice one!

-William S. Park

[Freddy]

Maybe in here..if not.. had a wholelotta fun...........................

 

Fred

yes you got you're Spell on me baby....

turning my heart into stone....

she's tryin' to make a devil out of me....

I can't leave you alone....

I need you so bad..magic Woman...

yes..you got your spell on me baby....

 

redactin'..howstuffworksdotcom/fourteenpangramsdothtm

Edited August 26, 2014 by Freddy

[D B Holtz]

Alphabet sentences.txt

 

These are what I use for practicing my penmanship.

 

DB

 

 

[ultrasonic38]

I use

 

"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz",

 

because I think it has the highest intelligibility/number of letters ratio.

[ThyPenMaker]

The dog whirled over, quickly catching the fox mid air and thrashed him but good just for calling him a lazy so and so.

 

Mine is not shorter, but I like it and uses all 26 I believe.

Edited November 6, 2015 by Inkfillet