What name is given to a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet at least once?
"letters of the alphabet"". Robert Baden-Powell's book ""Scouting for Boys"" (1908) uses the phrase as a practice sentence for signaling. The first message sent on the Moscow–Washington hotline on August 30, 1963, was the test phrase ""THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890"". Later, during testing, the Russian translators sent a message asking their American counterparts, ""What does it mean when your people say 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog?'"" During the 20th century, technicians tested typewriters and teleprinters by typing the sentence. In the age of computers, this pangram is commonly used"
"Pangram A pangram (, ""pan gramma"", ""every letter"") or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding. The best-known English pangram is ""The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"". It has been used since at least the late 19th century, was utilized by Western Union to test Telex / TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability, and is now used by a number of computer programs (most notably the font viewer built into"
"using a made-to-order hardware description language as a stepping stone and then applied the Tseytin transformation to the resulting chip. The pangram ""The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"", and the search for a shorter pangram, are the cornerstone of the plot of the novel ""Ella Minnow Pea"" by Mark Dunn. The search successfully comes to an end when the phrase ""Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs"" is discovered. Pangram A pangram (, ""pan gramma"", ""every letter"") or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been"
"A 2017 example of a full word acrostic poem using the first word of every line, entitled ""For 2/14"": In the video game Zork the first letters of sentences in a prayer spelled ""Odysseus"" which was a possible solution to a cyclops encounter in another room. Acrostics can be more complex than just by making words from initials. A double acrostic, for example, may have words at the beginning and end of its lines, as this example, on the name of Stroud, by Paul Hansford - The first letters make up the acrostich and the last letters the telestich; in"
"Acrostic An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French ""acrostiche"" from post-classical Latin ""acrostichis"", from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος ""highest, topmost"" and στίχος ""verse""). As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; such an acrostic"
"Abecedarius An abecedarius (also abecedary and abecedarian) is a special type of acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse follows the order of the letters in the alphabet. ""Abecedarius"" (or ""abecedarium"") is a Medieval Latin word meaning ""ABC primer"", derived by adding the suffix ""-arius"" (-a, -um) to the names of the first four letters of the alphabet (a+b+c+d). According to the OED, the earliest use of its English cognate, ""abecedary"", dates back at least to the mid-15 century, preceding the first usage of ""abecedarian"" which, as an adjective meaning ""arranged in alphabetical order"", can"
"from ""The Alkahest"", a translation of Honoré de Balzac's ""La Recherche de l'Absolu"": Panalphabetic window A panalphabetic window is a stretch of text that contains all the letters of the alphabet in order. It is a special type of pangram or pangrammatic window. Natural-sounding panalphabetic sentences are not particularly difficult to construct; the following sequence of 132 letters by Howard Bergerson is often quoted: Considerably rarer are short, naturally occurring panalphabetic windows. Based on the letter frequency distribution of a large corpus, Mike Keith calculated the expected window size for English text to be around 3000 letters. His computer-assisted search"
"Alliteration In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme. For example, """"h""umble ""h""ouse,"" or """"p""otential ""p""ower ""p""lay."" A familiar example is """"P""eter ""P""iper ""p""icked a ""p""eck of ""p""ickled ""p""eppers"". ""Alliteration"" is from the Latin word ""littera"", meaning ""letter of the alphabet""; it was first coined in a Latin dialogue by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano in the 15th century. Some literary experts accept as"
"F. Kennedy Other examples of alliteration in some famous speeches: Alliteration is commonly used in modern music but is also seen in magazine article titles, advertisements, business names, comic strips, television shows, video games and in the dialogue and naming of cartoon characters. Alliteration In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme. For example, """"h""umble ""h""ouse,"" or """"p""otential ""p""ower ""p""lay."" A familiar example is"
"Isogram An isogram (also known as a ""nonpattern word"") is a logological term for a word or phrase without a repeating letter. It is also used by some people to mean a word or phrase in which each letter appears the same number of times, not necessarily just once. Conveniently, the word itself is an isogram in both senses of the word, making it autological. In the book """", Dmitri Borgmann tries to find the longest isogrammic word. The longest one he found was ""Dermatoglyphics"" at 15 letters. He coins several longer hypothetical words, such as ""thumbscrew-japingly"" (18 letters, defined"
"the phrase is mentioned as a good practice sentence for writing students: ""A favorite copy set by writing teachers for their pupils is the following, because it contains every letter of the alphabet: 'A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'"" Dozens of other newspapers published the phrase over the next few months, all using the version of the sentence starting with ""A"" rather than ""The"". The earliest known use of the phrase in its modern form (starting with ""The"") is from the 1888 book ""Illustrative Shorthand"" by Linda Bronson. The modern form (starting with ""The"") became more common"
"that I with faith implore, Lest Sin and Death sink me to rise no more. Lastly, O God, my course direct and guide, In Death defend me, that I never slide; And at Doomsday let me be rais'd again, To live with thee sweet Jesus say, Amen. </poem> Acrostic An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French ""acrostiche"" from post-classical Latin ""acrostichis"", from"
"Palindrome A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as ""madam"" or ""racecar"" or the number ""10201."" Sentence-length palindromes may be written when allowances are made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers, such as ""A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!"", ""Was it a car or a cat I saw?"" or ""No 'x' in Nixon"". Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. The word ""palindrome"" was coined by the English playwright Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots '"
"Alternade An alternade is a word in which its letters, taken alternatively in a strict sequence, and used in the same order as the original word, make up at least two other words. All letters must be used, but the smaller words are not necessarily of the same length. For example, a word with seven letters where every second letter is used will produce a four-letter word and a three-letter word. In the majority of alternades, every second letter is used to make two smaller words, but in some cases, every third letter is used to make three smaller words."
"Words (Russian: слова). Writing poetry following the same principle is called ""capping verses."" Various other variants exist, such as Ancient Greek skolion. Word chain Word chain, also known as Grab on Behind, Last and First, Alpha and Omega, and The Name Game. is a word game in which players come up with words that begin with the letter or letters that the previous word ended with. A category of words is usually chosen, there is a time limit such as five seconds, and words may not be repeated in the same game. An example chain for food would be: Soup"
"Bubbly, Caviar, Dishes Epicures Favor, Gourmets Hail; Ices, Juicy Kickshaws, Luxurious Mousses, Nibblesome Octopus, Pheasant, Quiches, Sweets, Treats Utterly Vanquish Weightwatchers: Xenodochy's Yum-yum!</poem> Abecedarius An abecedarius (also abecedary and abecedarian) is a special type of acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse follows the order of the letters in the alphabet. ""Abecedarius"" (or ""abecedarium"") is a Medieval Latin word meaning ""ABC primer"", derived by adding the suffix ""-arius"" (-a, -um) to the names of the first four letters of the alphabet (a+b+c+d). According to the OED, the earliest use of its English cognate, ""abecedary"", dates"
"All caps In typography, all caps (short for ""all capitals"") refers to text or a font in which all letters are capital letters, for example: . ""All caps"" may be used for emphasis (for a word or phrase). They are commonly seen in the titles on book covers, in advertisements and in newspaper headlines. Short strings of words in capital letters appear bolder and ""louder"" than mixed case, and this is sometimes referred to as ""screaming"" or ""shouting"". All caps can also be used to indicate that a given word is an acronym. Studies have been conducted on the readability"
"and want shall shun you, Ceres' blessing so is on you.""</nowiki></poem> — Shakespeare,"" The Tempest ""(4.1.108-109; 116–17) Epistrophe Epistrophe (, ""return"") is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. It is also known as epiphora and occasionally as antistrophe. It is a figure of speech and the counterpart of anaphora. It is an extremely emphatic device because of the emphasis placed on the last word in a phrase or sentence. Greek epistrophe: ""a word coined by Plato as a goal of philosophical education and the term adopted by early Christians"
"Pentagraph A pentagraph (from the , ""pénte"", ""five"" and γράφω, ""gráphō"", ""write"") is a sequence of five letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not correspond to the individual values of the letters. In German, for example, the pentagraph ""tzsch"" represents the sound of the English digraph ""ch,"" and indeed is found in the English word ""Nietzschean"". Irish has several pentagraphs. English, like most languages, has none. For Latin-script pentagraphs see List of Latin-script pentagraphs. In Cyrillic used for languages of the Caucasus, there are a couple five-letter sequences used for 'strong'"
"Aronson's sequence Aronson's sequence is an integer sequence defined by the English sentence ""T is the first, fourth, eleventh, sixteenth, ... letter in this sentence."" Spaces and punctuation are ignored. The first few numbers in the sequence are: In Douglas Hofstadter's book Metamagical Themas, the sequence is credited to Jeffrey Aronson of Oxford, England. The sequence is infinite—and this statement requires some proof. The proof depends on the observation that the English names of all ordinal numbers, except those that end in 2, must contain at least one ""t"". Aronson's sequence is closely related to autograms . There are many"
"Epistrophe Epistrophe (, ""return"") is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. It is also known as epiphora and occasionally as antistrophe. It is a figure of speech and the counterpart of anaphora. It is an extremely emphatic device because of the emphasis placed on the last word in a phrase or sentence. Greek epistrophe: ""a word coined by Plato as a goal of philosophical education and the term adopted by early Christians for conversion"". <poem>* <nowiki>""Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you. ... Scarcity"
"likely to be encountered in general text are ""deinstitutionalization"" and ""counterrevolutionaries"", with 22 letters each. A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is ""uncharacteristically"", at 20 letters. The word ""internationalization"" is abbreviated ""i18n"", the embedded number representing the number of letters between the first and the last. In his play ""Assemblywomen"" (""Ecclesiazousae""), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created a word of 171 letters (183 in the transliteration below), which describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients: Henry Carey's farce"
"of sounds to make words. A letter is classed as either a consonant or a vowel, depending on how its sound is produced (vowels are ""a"", ""e"", ""i"", ""o"", ""u"", and sometimes ""y"" and ""w""). The basic Roman alphabet is used by about one hundred languages, with slight variations. Some versions contain as few as twenty-one characters, some as many as thirty. Letters have specific names associated with them, which may differ with language, dialect, and history. ""Z"", for example, is usually called ""zed"" in all English-speaking countries except the US, where it is named ""zee"". As elements of alphabets,"
"Word chain Word chain, also known as Grab on Behind, Last and First, Alpha and Omega, and The Name Game. is a word game in which players come up with words that begin with the letter or letters that the previous word ended with. A category of words is usually chosen, there is a time limit such as five seconds, and words may not be repeated in the same game. An example chain for food would be: Soup - Peas - Sugar - Rice. It is used as a tool for teaching English as a second language and as a"
"Camel case Camel case (stylized as camelCase; also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing phrases such that each word or abbreviation in the middle of the phrase begins with a capital letter, with no intervening spaces or punctuation. Common examples include ""iPhone"" and ""eBay"". It is also sometimes used in online usernames such as ""johnSmith"", and to make multi-word domain names more legible, for example in advertisements. Camel case is often used for variable names in computer programming. Some programming styles prefer camel case with the first letter capitalised, others not."
"finite sequence (i.e., string) of letters. The set of all words over an alphabet Σ is usually denoted by Σ (using the Kleene star). The length of a word is the number of letters it is composed of. For any alphabet, there is only one word of length 0, the ""empty word"", which is often denoted by e, ε, λ or even Λ. By concatenation one can combine two words to form a new word, whose length is the sum of the lengths of the original words. The result of concatenating a word with the empty word is the original"
"SaypU SaypU or SaypYu ( ) is an acronym for ""Spell As You Pronounce Universally"" (in SaypU ""Spel az Yu Prɘnawns Yunivɘɘrsɘlli"") is an approximative phonetic alphabet of 24 alphabet letters to spell languages, including English. The spelling system was adopted by Jaber George Jabbour to write English more phonetically. The 24-letter alphabet includes 23 Roman alphabet letters (after excluding ""c"", ""q"" and ""x"") and the addition of a 24th letter, the IPA letter ""ɘ"" (close-mid central unrounded vowel) to play the role of schwa. The letter represents the initial sound of ""ago"" or ""about"". The SaypU project promotes ""the"
"once. Abjads and abugidas, in which only the consonants are represented in the basic graphemes, have a naturally high incidence of heterograms. bacterium, capsuling, carpeting, certainly, clavering, constable, coxalgies, cravingly, expulsing, flowchart, franticly, interplay, lacewings, lawyering, neuralgic, overmatch, packeting, paltering, panegyric, parceling, parleying, pecuniary, picayunes, preacting, prelaunch, privately, puckering, racketing, repacking, replacing, replating, replaying, sluiceway, Spaulding, squawking, squeaking, squealing, traveling, unshapely, vectorial. caperingly, lacqueying, taperingly, dumbwaiter copyrightable dermatoglyphic uncopyrightable Heterogram (literature) A heterogram (from ""hetero-"", meaning ""different"", + ""-gram"", meaning ""written"") is a word, phrase, or sentence in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. An isogram,"
"Isopsephy Isopsephy (; ""isos"" meaning ""equal"" and ""psephos"" meaning ""pebble"") or isopsephism is the practice of adding up the number values of the letters in a word to form a single number. The total number is then used as a metaphorical bridge to other words evaluating the equal number, which satisfies ""isos"" or ""equal"" in the term. The early Greeks used pebbles arranged in patterns to learn arithmetic and geometry, which corresponds to ""psephos"" or ""pebble"" and ""counting"" in the term. Isopsephy is related to gematria—the same practice using the Hebrew alphabet and, later, also the English alphabet—and the ancient"
"Ditloid A ditloid is a type of word puzzle, in which a phrase, quotation, date, or fact must be deduced from the numbers and abbreviated letters in the clue. Common words such as 'the', 'in', 'a', 'an', 'of', 'to', etc. are not normally abbreviated. The name 'ditloid' was given by the ""Daily Express"" newspaper, originating from the clue: 1 = DitLoID ≡ ""1 Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"". Will Shortz originated the current form of this puzzle and first published it in the May–June 1981 issue of ""Games"" magazine, calling it the Equation Analysis Test. In its annual"
"Letter bank A letter bank is a relative of the anagram where all the letters of one word (the ""bank"") can be used as many times as desired (minimum of once each) to make a new word or phrase. For example, IMPS is a bank of MISSISSIPPI and SPROUT is a bank of SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. The term ""letter bank"" was coined by Will Shortz at the 1980 convention of the National Puzzlers League. This puzzle type is the basis for the word game Alpha Blitz. An imperfect anagram letter bank algorithm, could be used to correct spelling mistakes, overcome"
"Colon (rhetoric) A colon (from Greek: , ""pl."" , ""cola"") is a rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete. In Latin, it is called a ""membrum"" or ""membrum orationis"". Sentences consisting of two cola are called ""dicola""; those with three are ""tricola"". The corresponding adjectives are ""dicolic"" and ""tricolic""; ""colic"" is not used in this sense. In writing, these cola are often separated by colons. An isocolon is a sentence composed of cola of equal syllabic length. The Septuagint used this system in the poetic books such as the Psalms. When Jerome translated the"
"alphabet). The alphabet is as follows: Adam, Baker, Charlie, David, Edward, Frank, George, Henry, Ida, John, King, Lincoln, Mary, Nora, Ocean, Paul, Queen, Robert, Sam, Tom, Union, Victor, William, X-ray, Young, Zebra. Until recently, ""10-codes"" were in common use for radio communications (e.g., ""10-23"" to indicate arrival on location or ""10-86"" to indicate situation under control). However, with the National Incident Management System going into effect, encouraging the use of ""clear text"" to avoid possible miscommunication between agencies using a common radio frequency or working jointly on an incident, the use of 10-codes is being phased out. LMPD has officially"