That sentence is the beginning of "The Rainbow Passage", which is considerably longer and meant to be a good sampling of English phonemes. http://web.ku.edu/~i

That sentence is the beginning of "The Rainbow Passage", which is considerably longer and meant to be a good sampling of English phonemes. http://web.ku.edu/~idea/readings/rainbow.htm http://web.ku.edu/~idea/readings/rainbow.htm http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml#Rainbow http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml#Rainbow "The Rainbow Passage is one of the most common standard reading passages used to test an individual's ability to produce connected speech. Like the My Grandfather passage it is used in speech evaluations, but it is also used in studying accents, reading comprehension, as a speech exercise, and for testing language recognition software." from http://everything2.com/user/Tem42/writeups/The+Rainbow+Passage http://everything2.com/user/Tem42/writeups/The+Rainbow+Passa...