Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Wednesday Word of the Day
Pangram \PAN-gruhm\, noun:
A sentence, verse, etc., that includes all the letters of the alphabet.
Example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
The ideal pangram contains each letter only once, but it is difficult to compose a meaningful sentence of this kind.
-- Thomas Burns McArthur, Feri McArthur, The Oxford companion to the English language
~See now I'm kind of compelled to try making up my own pangram. :) ~
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Ah...I don't think I'll be trying that. lol!
ReplyDeleteLOL...I shouldn't have started! It's hard. ~wink~
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine how to do it without repeating letters...especially vowels!
Gee, ya learn something new everyday. I didn't know that was name for using every letter of the alphabet. Wow, what a brain twister. ~smiles~
ReplyDeleteIt was a surprise to me too, Savanna. And it's one heck of a brain twister. ;)
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