Pangram
Also called: holo-alphabetic sentence
A pangram is a sentence in which all the letters of the alphabet are used at least once. Pan is Greek for all. This is also called a holo-alphabetic sentence.
Pangrams are used to display fonts, for example, in the form of a letter proof. A pangram can help compare and pick out fonts.
Some well-known pangrams
In Dutch:
- Dad's wise lynx piously contemplated the hefty aqueduct
- Film quiz upset handsome ex-yogi
- In brutal fashion, the school teacher caught the quasi-calm lynx
- Blurry TV movie around posh skybox
- Yet nearby roams 'an exquisite sneaker
In English:
- The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- The five boxing wizards jump quickly
- Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs
- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
- Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs
In other languages:
- German (without accents and ß): Sylvia wagt quick den Jux bei Pforzheim
- German (in full): Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagten Victor quer über den großen Sylter Deich
- French: Portez ce whisky au vieux juge blond qui fume
- Italian: Quel vituperabile xenophobo zelante assaggia il whisky ed esclama: alleluja!
- Danish: Quizdeltagerne spiste jordbær med fløde, mens cirkusklovnen Walther spillede på xylofon
- Spanish: Jovenzuelo emponzoñado de whisky, ¡qué figurota exhibes!
- Fries: Alve bazige froulju wachtsje op dyn komst
In a perfect pangram, each letter appears only once. A Dutch example of this is:
- Lynx c.q. fox pokes bra: bye swimming teacher!
An initial letter pangram is formed by words that always begin with the next letter of the alphabet:
- If calculated chaos figuratively halves the unit in years, literal power lifting can unify negative or positive quotients arithmetically symmetrically to outcome, where x purifies y
Finally, another language find is the self-counting pangram, in which the text itself lists how many times each letter appears in it:
- This pangram contains five a's, two b's, two c's, three d's, forty-six e's, five f's, four g's, two h's, fifteen i's, four j's, one k, two l's, two m's, seventeen n's, one o, two p's, one q, seven r's, twenty-four s's, sixteen t's, one u, eleven v's, eight w's, one x, one y and six z's