Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes. The job requires extra pluck and zeal from every young wage-earner. Both of those sentences are pangrams, meaning they use every letter of the alphabet. Our Facebook group has been discussing these and lots of other alternatives to the old typing-teacher classic, “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy, sleeping dog.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Pangrams”
On our Facebook group, Stanley Anderson posted a lot of sentences that had a common theme. Let’s see if you can guess.
Okay, here’s one of them: Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
Here’s another one. The job requires extra pluck and zeal from every young wage earner.
Figured out the commonality yet?
Yeah, so these are sentences that have every letter of the alphabet in the mouth.
Yes, they’re pangrams.
Panagrams.
Pangrams or pangrams?
Pangrams.
We promptly judged antique ivory buckles for the next prize.
That’s great.
I know.
And they make sense, or some sense.
That’s what I like about them.
Which is what’s clever.
It’s not just a bunch of a pile of words.
That’s right.
It’s not the quick brown fox.
It’s amazing.
You know, I mean, really, Grant?
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
They should.
They should.
So you get to choose your own tunes.
Like in the old days, yes.
But you slip the DJ a couple bucks, he’ll play your song, right?
That is a 40-letter pangram.
You can send your pangrams to us @wayword or talk to our Facebook group, where there are a lot of people just like you having a conversation about language.
