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What is a pangram?
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Quick Answer
A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once, such as “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
The Full Story
Pangrams have been used since at least the 19th century to test typewriters, fonts and keyboards, ensuring every character displays correctly. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is the most famous English pangram and contains all 26 letters in 35 letters total. A perfect pangram uses each letter exactly once, but these tend to be obscure or nonsensical. Different languages have their own pangrams. Pangrams are still used today by graphic designers when choosing fonts and by typing tutors for practice exercises.
Key Facts
1.The quick brown fox pangram has 35 letters.
2.A perfect pangram uses each letter exactly once.
3.Pangrams were originally used to test typewriters.
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"Every letter in one sentence — the art of pangrams"