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  Wikipedia: Pangram
A pangram (Greek: pan gramma, all letters) is a piece of text which uses every letter of the alphabet.
Most pangrams are short, usually a single sentence: the aim in devising a pangram as a word game is to be as brief as possible.
In a sense, the pangram is the opposite of the lipogram, where the aim is to omit one or more letters.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/p/pa/pangram.html   (307 words)

  
 Pangram - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A pangram (Greek: pan gramma, "every letter") or holoalphabetic sentence is a piece of text which uses every letter of the alphabet.
By far the most well-known pangram is, "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." Frequently this is the sentence used to test out new typewriters, presumably because it includes every letter of the alphabet.
Constructing a perfect Japanese pangram, however, is slightly more difficult because of the sheer number of characters; Japanese has over one hundred basic graphemes, or kana (including digraphs).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Pangram   (1548 words)

  
 Fun With Words: Pangrams
A pangram is a sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet.
Interesting pangrams are generally short ones; constructing a sentence that includes the fewest repeat letters possible is a challenging task.
However, pangrams that are slightly longer yet enlightening, humorous, or eccentric are noteworthy in their own right.
rinkworks.com /words/pangrams.shtml   (532 words)

  
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 Pangrams for typographers
Pangrams are most often used to showcase typefaces (the correct term for what has come to be known instead as fonts).
For variety, provide for different pangrams on request or randomly select one if none is specified.
Now write out the pangram at as many sizes as were specified or if none was, use the default array of sizes we set up.
feather.elektrum.org /book/pangram.html   (1828 words)

  
 The Tribune - Windows -Word Power
Of course, it is not difficult to devise a pangram, but the art of creating a good pangram is in fulfilling not only the criterion that it contains all letters, but also that it is short, and it makes sense.
The most famous English pangram probably is ‘the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’, but this is certainly not the shortest possible.
Pangrams are also used frequently for typing practice since they require every letter on the keyboard to be used.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030104/windows/word.htm   (528 words)

  
 Puzzles/Palindromic Pangram - J Wiki
A palindromic pangram is a multi-word palindrome that includes all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Bonus (optional, very hard!): find the shortest possible palindromic pangram in terms of the total number of words or letters used.
Moreover, the bonus problem, finding the shortest possible palindromic pangram in terms of the total number of words or letters used, remains unsolved.
www.jsoftware.com /jwiki/Puzzles/Palindromic_Pangram   (385 words)

  
 OEDILF - Word Lookup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A perfect pangram would be a passage of clear, grammatical prose that used each of the twenty-six letters just once.
This is arguably the first pangram to have met the challenge fully.
It is unarguably the only perfect pangram to have appeared in a limerick.
www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?Word=pangram   (456 words)

  
 GDT::Bit::Today's A.W.A.D. is Pangram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pangram was the A.W.A.D. (A-Word-A-Day) for Friday, 27 September 2002.
Upon learning about pangram I realized the need for function that will test if a sentence is a pangram.
A pangram is "a sentence that makes use of all the letters of the alphabet." Examples.
shell.deru.com /~gdt/bits/pangram.html   (135 words)

  
 Table of Forms—The Pangram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The problem with writing an isogrammatic pangram is that, in the alphabet we find a higher proportion of consonants to vowels than one is likely to find in normal English.
This led to 21 consonant poetry, and, to resolve the Y question in the simplest way, 20 consonant poetry and the less strenuous six vowel poetry.
The pangram is a practical form: it an be used to test your keyboard or to examine all the letters of a particular font.
www.spinelessbooks.com /table/forms/pangram.html   (347 words)

  
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 Any good examples of a pangram? in The AnswerBank: Phrases & Sayings
A pangram is a sentence or phrase which contains every letter of the alphabet.
A pangram was the most practical way of displaying each character of a typeface.
In fact, the oldest pangram, which was set as a typeface sample 500 years ago, is still used today - in one version or another.
www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1190.html   (295 words)

  
 Pangrams
Pangrams are sentences that contain each letter of alphabet, such as the well-known sentence used to test typewriters -
The change from previous pangram to advanced pangram is from a sentence X about which we can say "X has so many a's, so many b's,...
Self-documenting pangrams generation was one of the course assignments that I had given during Introduction to Programming course at PUCSD in 1996.
members.fortunecity.com /sandeepkumar/tutorials/pangram.html   (184 words)

  
 Paracelsus Rambles: Pangram haikus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I'll let font designer Mark Simonson answer that one: "A pangram is a sentence or phrase which contains every letter of the alphabet." As such it is useful to font mongers plying their wares.
Anyway, font hacks like Simonson make a lot of these pangrams, so he built himself a tool: the Pangrammer Helper.
Then, the web being what it is, someone decided to use his tool to make pangram haikus.
www.starchamber.com /2005/05/pangram_haikus.html   (231 words)

  
 toys @ perrywhittle.com
Pangrams are phrases that contain every letter of the alphabet.
Honor: The AppleScript version of Pangram Validator was chosen Script of the Week by MacScripter.net (when it was called bbs.applescript.net).
Pangram Validator was chosen because it's lots of fun, in addition to being "a great demonstration of Applescript's power and versatility," according to award administrator Gregory Spence.
www.perrywhittle.com /toys/pangram_valid_desc.html   (164 words)

  
 Self-enumerating pangrams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
One of the pangram word games is to construct the shortest phrase that is still a pangram.
For the sake of pangrams, this "PTT" alphabet is equivalent to the formal alphabet.
As an extension to the `standard' problem and the `10-guilder' problem, here are two pangrams which not only enumerate their individual letter content, but also mention their total letter count.
www.fatrazie.com /EWpangram.html   (2842 words)

  
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According to Beth Lee, a pangram is “one of the calligrapher’s most valuable practice tools.” It is also said to be valuable for keyboarding (typing) skills.
A pangram is a phrase or sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet, with: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, being the most well-known.
Many other pangrams, such as: Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs (from Beth Lee’s Web site) are listed on the Web sites that discuss pangrams.
www2.hawaii.edu /~lyonezaw/LIS694/Word.doc   (169 words)

  
 | Pangram | Typophile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pangrams are short sentences that include all 26 characters of the alphabet.
They may also be useful to designers in the process of designing their own work but they are too compact for a more thorough assessment.
Perhaps the most common pangram is The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
typophile.com /wiki/pangram   (132 words)

  
 The Pangram page
Pangrams are sentences containing all of the letters of the alphabet.
In general, good pangrams intended are short and don't have proper names in them (it's too easy that way).
There are more pangrams and other word puzzles at the Fun with Words web page, and at Inquizitive.
www.tardis.ed.ac.uk /~ajcd/type/pangram.html   (682 words)

  
 In Quest of a Pangram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The phoenix now emerging from the ashes of the Pangram Quest soared serenely to the sky, smoothly circled, swiftly swooped, and soon bore me off, a helpless prisoner in its relentless talons.
The idea of a logological counterpart to a number series suggested itself: This first pangram..., This second pangram..., This third pangram..., in each case accompanied by a different verb, led to a series with one hundred terms in it.
Kousbroek's challenge was to produce a magic translation of his pangram.
wordways.com /inquest.htm   (3057 words)

  
 Pangram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pangram is een oud woordspel dat altijd weer nieuw is. Met alle letters uit het alfabet maak je een zo kort mogelijke, logische zin.
Daarom luistert Pangram precies naar wat u beschreven wilt hebben, naar hoe en naar waar u dit wilt.
Zo is uw tekst altijd origineel en verschijnt het in een passend jasje.
www.pangram.nl   (118 words)

  
 Pangrams
Everybody knows one or two pangrams (sentences that use every letter of the alphabet).
Pangram game that you can play whilst travelling in the car was described in Word Ways.
And don't miss the gigantic collection of pangrams that our visitors have been sending in to us over the past four years.
www.fun-with-words.com /pangrams.html   (229 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pangram: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A cloning from intimate belongings, a mystical pangram.
GALLIARD *Unless otherwise noted, all pangrams in this chapter are set in 12-point ripe.
A slight spoiler here, but something you should know: A pangram is a piece of writing that contains all the letters...
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Pangram&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1   (570 words)

  
 Pangram page
The classic pangram used by typographers is: 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog'.
Probably the shortest French pangram, at 29 letters, is: Whisky vert: jugez cinq fox d'aplomb.
What we don't have yet are any examples of pangrams which (a) include the standard typographic ligatures or (b) include accented characters.
homepage.ntlworld.com /alan.pipes/pangram.html   (596 words)

  
 PhpWiki - Pangram
Q: A "pangram" is a sentence containing all 26 letters.
It is fairly straightforward, if time-consuming, to search for minimal pangrams given a suitable lexicon, and the enclosed program does this.
Readers are invited to form sentences (or, less challenging, newspaper headlines) from these pangrams.
rec-puzzles.org /index.php/Pangram   (928 words)

  
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The word pangram comes from the Greek for all letters (pan = ALL + grámma = LETTER).
A pangram is a series of words which contains all the letters of the alphabet.
Of course, it is not difficult to devise a pangram, but the art of creating a good pangram is in fulfilling not only the criterion that it contains all letters, but also that (a) it is short, and (b) it makes sense.
www2.hawaii.edu /~shiba/694/Pangram.doc   (144 words)

  
 Pangram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is difficult to achieve without resorting to obscure words and proper nouns.
It is not possible to make a perfect pangram out of current chemical element symbols, but it is possible using two disused ones.
UNQ, for unnilquadium, is in every pangram, as it is only one of two chemical symbols with a Q, the other being UUQ, for ununquadium (the two U's prevent its use).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pangram   (2616 words)

  
 P22 Pangram Contest - more entries
A pangram is a sentence that makes use of every letter of the alphabet.
There were several political pangrams this presidential election year.
I view quirky designers who find extra time conceptualizing pangrams as jobless.
www.p22.com /products/pangrams2.html   (285 words)

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