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> THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG It's "a" quick brown fox, otherwise the sentence has no "a".
by rogual 3y ago
> THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
It's "a" quick brown fox, otherwise the sentence has no "a".
- lordfrito 3y agoLazy?
- jnosCo 3y agoThere is an "a" in "lazy"?
- rogual 3y agoWell, I'm stupid.
- jameshart 3y agoThe usual mistake people make in reciting this is to say the fox jumped over the lazy dog, causing them to omit an ‘s’ from the sentence. Making sure it’s ‘the’ lazy dog rather than ‘a’ lazy dog is actually important if you care about completing the lowercase alphabet, as without it there’s only an uppercase ‘T’.
- SamBam 3y agoIndeed. But it's worth having "a lazy" anyway to avoid the repetetive "the."
- dave78 3y agoHuh, I never gave that sentence much thought, and I guess I never realized it conveniently covered the whole alphabet. It makes so much more sense now!
- sgerenser 3y agoI liked the one that Apple used to use in the MacOS 7/8 era: “How razorback-jumping frogs level six piqued gymnasts!” (Might be slightly off but its unique enough that I remembered it at least 20 years after it disappeared from MacOS).
- sings 3y agoThose gymnasts remind me of some of my favourite pangrams… Bouncy squad eking prize with pelvic flexion jump. My Fox News TV quip? Big jerks add zilch! View half a dozen squid & peg just six inky crumbs.