pangram • from the greek pan gramma or every letter • a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once
History
The earliest known appearance of the phrase is from The Michigan School Moderator, a journal that provided teachers with education-related news and suggestions for lessons. In an article titled “Interesting Notes” in the March 14, 1885 issue, the phrase is given as a suggestion for writing practice: “The following sentence makes a good copy for practice, as it contains every letter of the alphabet: ‘A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.’”
As the use of typewriters grew in the late 19th century, the phrase began appearing in typing and stenography lesson books as a practice sentence. Early examples of publications which utilized the phrase include Illustrative Shorthand by Linda Bronson (1888), How to Become Expert in Typewriting: A Complete Instructor Designed Especially for the Remington Typewriter (1890), and Typewriting Instructor and Stenographer’s Hand-book (1892). By the turn of the 20th century, the phrase had become widely known. In the January 10, 1903, issue of Pitman’s Phonetic Journal, it is referred to as “the well known memorized typing line embracing all the letters of the alphabet”. Robert Baden-Powell’s book Scouting for Boys (1908) uses the phrase as a practice sentence for signalling.
— From wikipedia
Jumping Foxes
Bonus Material
An illustrated guide to foxes
Source: Foxes of the World by *Culpeo-Fox
Behind the scenes of “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”
The Arctic Fox
nick, you’re a stone cold fox!
*howl*
Nicholas, if you’re the quick brown fox, all I wanna be is the lazy dog. Jump me. Skip the over.
Oh my David. Save that talk for when I come by your window tonight.
It’ll be wiiiide open. haha
Oh, great post, by the way. Foxes are panagramic creatures, for sure. Self-enumerators. I guess we wish we could own them. Without caging them, that is. We’re owners only of the loyal and loving laziness of our loved and lazy dogs.
Nicholas, your bliss inducing foxy pangram post just delivered that state to me as though it was a package of quilts from Zaire.
On a side note, there’s a San Juaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) that quietly gleans the pets, and their food, of my neighborhood as though it walks a maze.
hahahaha YES!!!
FOXES!!
JUMPING!!
JUMPING FOXES!!
i was all broody/gloomy/grumpy and this put a massive grin on my face that i can’t shake off! fucking brilliant..
This post was such a clever and original idea. Thanks for giving me an excuse to watch adorable jumping fox videos instead of doing homework.