A sentence containing all the letters of the English alphabet. What is the shortest phrase that contains all the letters of the alphabet

During their training, English radio operators repeatedly (one might even say often) transmit and receive this, of course, English phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Many of you didn't understand. It doesn't matter: now I will translate it into Russian:
"FAST BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER LAZY DOG".
Some of the student radio operators diligently broadcast this unexpected combination of words, while others, with serious and even anxious faces, listen and peer not only into every word, into every letter of it ...
Maybe you think that both of them are a little crazy? Nothing like this!
Now I will reveal to you the secret of this strange saying.
It (the secret) lies in the fact that this nine-word phrase includes all the letters of the English alphabet. Remember, if you forgot, that there are only 26 letters in this alphabet: A B C D E F Q H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.
So what? Now carefully reread the magic phrase, carefully dotting all the available letters with a pencil. Some letters will appear twice, for example, the whole article "the" is repeated twice. It does not matter to you and me: as long as there is not a single gap and that each of the twenty-six letters occurs at least once.
Probably, many of you have long wanted to know: what is the point in this proverb that is either hunting or dog breeding, and at the same time, English radio operators so stubbornly insist on its justice?
And they are not at all interested in whether the "brown fox" really jumps over the "lazy dog", or this happens only with red foxes, and the property of dogs has nothing to do with it.
This phrase was invented specifically for this and so that it contains ALL letters of the English alphabet.
When learning from a radio operator, some letters can be obtained clearly and clearly, on others (we are talking about modern long-distance letter-printing devices), so-called "failures" occur: misunderstandings can occur during the transmission of important dispatches.
Here, in order to find out in advance, when preparing the devices for work, whether the teletype or other similar device transmits all the letters equally without exception, the British came up with their mysterious phrase-sentence.
There is no apparent meaning in it, but it fulfills its role perfectly.
I told you about this funny circumstance, not only so that you just know that such a phrase exists.
I want to offer you a kind of competition: try to compose the same short phrase - well, 7-10 words (we have more letters than the English) for the Russian alphabet. Anyone who comes up with a phrase that not only contains all Russian letters, but also has some, even the most uncomplicated, meaning, can consider himself a "champion of letter cunning."

Drawing by A. Vovikova.

Today we will introduce you to another linguistic phenomenon called "pangram". This is a Greek term that means "παν" - "all" and "γραμμα" - "letter" and denotes a phrase or sentence that contains all or almost all the letters of the alphabet of a particular language. In some languages, due to the specificity of the alphabet, it is very difficult to compose pangrams with the repetition of a letter in a sentence only once, therefore deviations from this rule are acceptable: some letters can be repeated, abbreviations are used, in accordance with the ancient Roman tradition, the letters J and U are replaced by I and V .

The most famous English pangram is the following statement, consisting of 35 letters (there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet):

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. - A nimble brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

Here are some more examples from English:

Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.- The jackdaws love my big quartz sphinx. (31 letters)

The five boxing wizards jump quickly.- The five boxing wizards jump fast. (31 letters)

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.“Pack my box of five dozen jugs of booze. (32 letters)

Cozy sphinx waves quart jug of bad milk. The cozy sphinx is waving a quart of bad milk. (32 letters)

The jay, pig, fox, zebra and my wolves quack!- Jay, pig, fox, zebra and my wolves quack! (32 letters)

Crazy Fredrick bought many very exquisite opal jewels.“Crazy Frederick bought a lot of very fine opal jewels. (46 letters)

And here are examples from the Russian language:

Would citrus live in the thickets of the south? Yes, but a fake copy!(without "ъ" or "ё")

Our bank paid F.Ya. Eichgold commission for valuables. (without "ъ" or "ё")

Loving, eat the tongs, - the mayor will sigh, - the buzz is burning.- 33 letters of the Russian alphabet, each of which is repeated only 1 time.

Hey goon! Where is the ace? Hide the young tenants in the closet.(33 letters)

Eat [the same] more of these soft French rolls and drink tea.– This pangram is used by Microsoft in fontview.exe for Cyrillic fonts without the “y” particle.

What pangrams do you know? Share with us in the comments!

Pangrams were originally used to test the functionality of typewriters and keyboards, to see if all keys worked equally well, and to showcase fonts in a print shop. But besides this, in every country there are pangram lovers who independently compile them. A good pangram is one that not only contains all the letters of the alphabet, but is also fairly short and has a specific meaning, rather than being a collection of incoherent words. The most famous English pangram is the following sentence, consisting of 35 letters (there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet): The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. - A nimble brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. Here are some more examples from English: Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. - The jackdaws love my big quartz sphinx. (31 letters) The five boxing wizards jump quickly. - The five boxing wizards jump fast. (31 letters) Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. “Pack my box of five dozen jugs of booze. (32 letters) Cozy sphinx waves quart jug of bad milk. The cozy sphinx is waving a quart of bad milk. (32 letters) The jay, pig, fox, zebra and my wolves quack! - Jay, pig, fox, zebra and my wolves quack! (32 letters) Crazy Fredrick bought many very exquisite opal jewels. “Crazy Frederick bought a lot of very fine opal jewels. (46 letters) And here are examples from the Russian language: Would citrus live in the thickets of the south? Yes, but a fake copy! (without "b" or "e") Our bank paid F.Ya. Eichgold commission for valuables. (without "b" or "e") Loving, eat the tongs, - the mayor will sigh, - the buzz is burning. - 33 letters of the Russian alphabet, each of which is repeated only 1 time. Hey goon! Where is the ace? Hide the young tenants in the closet. (33 letters) Eat [the same] more of these soft French rolls and drink tea. – This pangram is used by Microsoft in fontview.exe for Cyrillic fonts without the “y” particle. What pangrams do you know? Share with us in the comments!

In Russian, such phrases are called
pangrams.

Pangram is a phrase whose words use all or almost all the letters of the alphabet.

Pangrams are commonly used to demonstrate fonts, check the transmission of words of text over communication lines, test printers, etc.

And what phrases contain all the letters of the Russian alphabet?

Eat some more of those soft French buns and have some tea.

or the shortest expressions, but more funny:

Hey goon! Where is the ace? Hide the young tenants in the closet.

Loving, eat the tongs, - the mayor will sigh, - the buzz is burning.

The boss is furious point tongs echoing goodbye Jules.

The program "Keyboard Solo" by V. V. Shakhidzhanyan uses:

An expert artist with a computer just packed eggs in a voluminous low box.

Here the plot cannot embrace all the emotions - a lisping runner in a skirt drags hot honey.

Initially, the developers of Microsoft Word, starting with the Windows 95 operating systems, demonstrated in such a cunning way how letters look in Cyrillic fonts. But for some reason, the phrase was without “zhe” and instead of “yo” it was written “e”:

Eat some more of those soft French buns and have some tea.

On foreign versions of Windows:

English version: “ The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”

German: " Kaufen Sie jede Woche vier gute bequeme Pelze xy«

French words: Portez ce vieux whiskey au juge blond qui fume«

Pangram in Spanish: " El veloz murcielago hindu comiafeliz cardillo y kiwi. La ciguenatocaba el saxofon detras del palenque de paja«.

Japanese poem: いろはにとちりぬるをわかよたれつねならむうゐのおくやまてあさきゆめみしゑひもせすせす.

And a few more fun pangrams:

In the thickets of the south, there lived a citrus ... - yes, but a fake copy!

A South Ethiopian rook led a mouse by its trunk to a lizard convention.

Linguists are horrified: figs pronounce the sketch: "the rise of Chelyabinsk, the smell of cabbage."

Oh, I’ll be furious, I’ll push the phlegmatic: “I would give you the hottest cabbage, Peter!”

Write: the son-in-law ate an egg, another vat of swede ... eh! Waiting for a fig!

This phlegmatic camel chews a drying bitter dog rose at the entrance.

A chauffeur arrived in a refrigerator to load eggs for elite medical students.

Once having eaten feijoa, I, like a fixated, nostalgic more and more for this miracle.

What is the shortest phrase that contains all the letters of the alphabet?

In Russian, such phrases are called pangrams. A pangram is a phrase whose words use all or almost all the letters of the alphabet. Pangrams are usually used to demonstrate fonts, check the transmission of text words over communication lines, test printers, etc. And what phrases contain all the letters of the Russian alphabet? Eat some more of those soft French buns, yeah...