“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram (a phrase that contains all of the letters of the alphabet). It has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards, and in other applications involving all of the letters in the English alphabet, because it is also a short coherent sentence.
As the use of typewriters grew in the late 19th century, the phrase began appearing in typing and stenography lesson books as a practice sentence. Early examples of publications which utilized the phrase include Illustrative Shorthand by Linda Bronson (1888),[1] How to Become Expert in Typewriting: A Complete Instructor Designed Especially for the Remington Typewriter (1890), and Typewriting Instructor and Stenographer’s Hand-book (1892).
By the turn of the century, the phrase had become widely known. In the January 10, 1903 issue of Pitman’s Phonetic Journal, it is referred to as “the well known memorized typing line embracing all the letters of the alphabet”.[2] Robert Baden-Powell’s book Scouting for Boys (1908) uses the phrase as a practice sentence for signalling.[3]
A few variations of this pangram exist, including “the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog”, and “a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. Each of these variations has 33 letters, compared to 35 in the original version. “the quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog” also makes sense, particularly as foxes are not traditionally considered to be brown.
The version “a quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog”, and any version with the word jumped in the past tense eliminate one or more letters and hence, are not pangrams. A valid pangram variation is “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’s back”.
This pangram is commonly used to display font samples.
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^ Bronson, Linda Pennington (1888). Illustrative Shorthand. San Francisco. p. 76.
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^ “The Fox Typewriter”. Pitman’s Phonetic Journal. January 10, 1903.
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^ Baden-Powell, Robert (1908). Scouting for Boys. London: Pearson.
Pangram Berbahasa Indonesia
Saya memperkenalkan pangram berbahasa Indonesia:
Keledai bodoh tak bisa mencongak berapa v + w = z x q? Kata babi, “fyuh, pakai komputer saja, beres!
Pangram adalah frasa yang mengandung semua huruf dalam deret alfabet. Dalam Bahasa Inggris pangram yang paling tersohor adalah ini: A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Di Wikipedia ada sederet contoh lagi. Misalnya ini:
Big fjords vex quick waltz nymph.
Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps.
Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.
Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!
Fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz.
Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox.
Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf.
Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack
Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.
Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
Sex-charged fop blew my junk TV quiz
Nah, Anda berminat menyusun versi Anda juga? Berbagilah!
hak cipta pada hasan aspahani at 8:43:00 AM
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