The phrase The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog or A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog was frequently used to test typewriters, because it is a coherent short sentence that uses all the letters in the English language alphabet. Such a sentence is called a pangram. Another phrase that serves the same purpose is, "How razorback jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts!". This Smith Premier typewriter, purchased around the end of the 19th century, was found abandoned in the Bodie ghost town. ... In linguistics, the sentence is a unit of language, characterised in most languages by the presence of a finite verb. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... A pangram (Greek: pan gramma, every letter) or holoalphabetic sentence is a piece of text which uses every letter of the alphabet. ...

Only the letters "a", "e", "o", "r", and "u" are used more than once, each being used twice, except for "o" which is used four times.

In the age of computers, the sentence is often used as a sample text in font selection contexts. It is also used on occasion as an exemplary meta-sentence. In typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of character designs, which usually comprises an alphabet of letters, a set of numerals and a set of punctuation marks. ... A meta-sentence is a sentence which refers to itself. ...

This sentence is frequently mis-quoted as "The quick brown fox jumped over a lazy dog", which does not contain all the letters of the alphabet as the letter "s" is missing.

In the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, the inventor of the phrase lives on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Ella Minnow Pea is a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable written by Mark Dunn. ... Mark Dunn is an American author and playwright. ...

The phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" can be generated in english Microsoft Word by typing =rand() and pressing the ENTER key. Microsoft Word is a word processor program from Microsoft. ...

See also

• Lorem ipsum
• QWERTY

Lorem ipsum (lipsum for short) is the standard placeholder text used since the 1500s in the publishing and graphic design industry. ... The QWERTY Layout QWERTY (pronounced kwerty) is the modern-day layout of letters on most English language computer and typewriter keyboards. ...

External links

• Sentences that contain all letters commonly used in a language (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/quickbrown.txt)