19 January 2008

Top Pangrams

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. The shorter the sentence, the better it is. Among the popular pangrams are as follows:

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

35 letters, 9 repeated: o (4 times), e (3 times), h (2 times), r (2 times), t (2 times), u (2 times)

By changing the second "the" to "a", the above sentence has reduced the number of letters from 35 to 33:


“The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.”


33 letters, 7 repeated: o (4 times), a (2 times), e (2 times), r (2 times), u (2 times)


This version is further modified to reduce one more letter:


“Quick brown dogs jump over the lazy fox.”


32 letters, 6 repeated: o (4 times), e (2 times), r (2 times), u (2 times)


“Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.”


32 letters, 6 repeated: i (3 times), o (3 times), e (2 times), u (2 times)


“The five boxing wizards jump quickly.”


31 letters, 5 repeated: i (4 times), e (2 times), u (2 times)


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