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In an article titled "Current Notes" in the February 9, 1885, edition, the phrase is mentioned as a good practice sentence for writing students: "A favorite copy set by writing teachers for their pupils is the following, because it contains every letter of the alphabet: 'A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ' " [1] Dozens of other ...
This sentence includes all Czech letters with diacritics, but not all basic letters. To include all basic letters, including letters that only occur in loanwords (g, q, w, x), this one is used: Nechť již hříšné saxofony ďáblů rozezvučí síň úděsnými tóny waltzu, tanga a quickstepu.
For example, a word where every featured letter appears twice, like "Shanghaiings", might be called a pair isogram, [8] a second-order isogram, [2] or a 2-isogram. [3] A perfect pangram is an example of a heterogram, with the added restriction that it uses all the letters of the alphabet.
The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a phrase with fifty-seven letters). Bertrand Russell , the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867–1928), [ 1 ] a junior librarian at Oxford 's Bodleian Library .
The shortest sentences in the English language are: "I am" and "I do" Wrong. "I." can be a perfectly valid sentence. Fredrik 16:01, 9 May 2004 (UTC) "I." is a sentence fragment because it has no verb. Tribunar 16:08, 9 May 2004 (UTC) Okay, that's right. But "Go" is a valid sentence, whereas "I am" is not . So the article should say that the ...
We’d say we were still angry at Fox, but five years later, all episodes were quietly released on ad-supported streaming service Sony Crackle and, well… we get it now. WICKED CITY (ABC, 2015 ...
Also, late in the text, the author begins using letters serving as homophones for the omitted letters (i.e., PH in place of an F, G in place of C), which may be considered cheating. At the beginning of each chapter, the alphabet appears along with a sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
A man in the U.K. spent as much time behind bars as it takes to watch an episode of Stranger Things after receiving what is being called the country's shortest ever prison sentence.. Shane Jenkins ...