Saturday, July 31, 2004

The Brown Fox

One approach to writer's block is to simply write: I don't know what to write. I don't know what to write. I don't know what to write... until you get some better idea. Personally if I'm going to write one sentence over and over, I prefer this one: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." It includes every letter of the alphabet and is an example of a pangram or holoalphabetic sentence.

Here are a few other pangrams:

  • Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
  • Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
  • The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
  • Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack.
  • Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.
  • My faxed joke won a pager in the cable TV quiz show.