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This chart provides a quick reference of the word in which each letter of the alphabet occurs. Though it is clear that all letters of the alphabet exist in the sentence, this chart is an aid to readers who may need help finding a few letters:
You wouldn't think so, but there have been dozens of times that people have edited this article saying that it lacks one letter or another. It's weird. Maybe this chart would help. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:41, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I assume these edits are jokes. Or at least made with such hurried and misplaced confidence — no time to double-check each of these nine words, the 100-year-old typing exercise must be wrong and I must be right! — that they wouldn't read as far as a quick reference table either. Belbury (talk) 22:15, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Michigan School Moderator text was being sampled by some Inkscape tutorials which lead me down this rabbit hole. Looks like Kaldari is the world's expert on this. ;-) Jason Quinn (talk) 04:26, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Fine little illustrations but they're unnecessary for this article - the b&w drawing the article currently has is there for historic reasons, not just as a picture. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 17:37, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that original historical context is more useful. The second image has also been deleted from Commons as a possible clipart copyvio. --Lord Belbury (talk) 13:24, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As a child decades ago, I'd always seen this phrased as "The quick RED fox jumps over the lazy brown dog." Less efficient, but since foxes tend to be reddish, not brown, it always made more sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.11.4.37 (talk) 21:23, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The subsection with this name proceeds to detail not merely other pangrams, but specifically shorter ones; which isn't really a relevant qualification for a pangram. What is more, the only pangram included which features the words sphinx and quartz is not the one more commonly found on font websites (specifically those offering free fonts), which by contradistinction is: