I am looking for a short piece of english text (a few paragraphs) that contains all the letters in the English language. The trick is that I want it to contain all the capitals and all the lowercase letters without the text looking contrived or having weird capitalization - basically I need it to have 26 words that are either proper nouns, “I” or first words in a sentence in addition to all the lower case letters used (which is trivial). If the text sounds good or makes any sort of sense that’s a bonus.
Anything like that in existence?
What do calligraphers use to practice a new cursive font?
Well, from your topic I assume you know about “The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog” which is supposed to include most of the letters in the English language. I read about a simple code based on that phrase in Boys Life a few years back.
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Well, from your topic I assume you know about “The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog” which is supposed to include most of the letters in the English language. I read about a simple code based on that phrase in Boys Life a few years back.
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It’s “jumps,” not “jumped.” This way it contains all the letters.
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There’s a whole list of pangrams in English here.
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I am specifically looking for text that includes all letters, lowercase and uppercase. Since the occurence of capitalized words seems to be around 1 in 10+/-4 in normal english writing, I’d expect it to be at least 250 words.
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I am specifically looking for text that includes all letters, lowercase and uppercase. Since the occurence of capitalized words seems to be around 1 in 10+/-4 in normal english writing, I’d expect it to be at least 250 words.
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Why not a simple list of nations? Well, you might have to include Xanadu, but no one will notice…
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I am specifically looking for text that includes all letters, lowercase and uppercase. Since the occurence of capitalized words seems to be around 1 in 10+/-4 in normal english writing, I’d expect it to be at least 250 words.
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This narrative poem by the splendidly named Alaric Watts may be what you’re looking for: he even convincingly gets the X’s in there…
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This narrative poem by the splendidly named Alaric Watts may be what you’re looking for: he even convincingly gets the X’s in there…
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I think Watts is using poetic licence here and availing himself of the historical fact that i and j were originally the same letter.
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So the line was originally “Just Jesus, jnstant jnnocence jnstill!”
All this reminded me of an old Lampoon cartoon that had the Quick Brown Fox jumping over the Lazy Dog, the dog then casually says to the puzzled Fox:
“Oh, while you’re at it - Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.”
