# Post a pangram, like "The quick brown fox jumps over the fat lazy dog." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667 "2007-01-12T04:43:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667/1 "2007-01-12T04:43:51Z")
Rules: 1. It must be original. 2. It must contain all 26 letters of the English alphabet. 3. It must make sense (at least syntactically.) Bonus points if you can come up with one that’s _exactly_ 26 letters. Here’s mine: _Jung’s quiet zobo Felix loved a milky wet Cheerio._ Yes, “[zobo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobo)” is a word. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667/2 "2007-01-12T04:59:52Z")
A pox upon you, Jurgens, you old beanbag – you’ve squashed my favorite zwieback! OK, it’s not original. It’s from a book I read many years ago that had a chapter on this subject. But it has stuck with me all these years, and I do love it so. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667/3 "2007-01-12T05:28:20Z")
I’m not sure it’s possible to get a(nother) 26-letter one. The only one I’ve ever seen that makes any sense was “Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx.” Everything else used Welsh words and other nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667/4 "2007-01-12T05:31:25Z")
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog–that whore. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667/5 "2007-01-12T06:08:14Z")
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667/6 "2007-01-12T06:10:02Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not sure it’s possible to get a(nother) 26-letter one. The only one I’ve ever seen that makes any sense was “Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx.” Everything else used Welsh words and other nonsense. **D.V. Pike flung J. Q. Schwartz my box.** Not original with me – I remember it from an old Ripley’s Believe it or Not. He had one or two more like it. But it uses initials and names, which makes it non-kosher to most people. But I don’t think it’s possible to hiy 26 without either using really weird words, or initials, or else abbreviations. Another one (longer than 26) from Ripley;'s was **Jackdaws love my big sphynx of quartz.** ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667/7 "2007-01-12T06:29:29Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. [/QUOTE] That one’s not original. You’re fired. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-pangram-like-the-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-the-fat-lazy-dog/387667/8 "2007-01-12T06:30:42Z")
Not original, but I remember learning the standard French one at the Alliance Française and noticing that it was just as nonsensical as the English ones: > [@](#): > > Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume. As for English ones, I’ve always rather liked: > [@](#): > > Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. At least it doesn’t seem quite so contrived as some of the others.