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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Still remember at http://reptonrd.blogspot.com/2010/05/randold.html how we generate some random sentences?

Have you notice that the phase above contains all of the letters of the alphabet. It has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards, and in other applications involving all of the letters in the English alphabet. Owing to its shortness and coherence, it has become widely known and is often used in visual arts.

A few variations of the pangram are sometimes encountered, including "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog", both of which are two letters shorter, and "The quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog".

The sentence is often mistakenly rendered as "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog," which does not include an s. However, this can be corrected by typing: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs".