Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

All from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram

Examples of pangrams that are shorter than “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” (which has 35 letters) and use standard written English without abbreviations or proper nouns:
“Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.” (28 letters)
“Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf.” (28 letters)
“Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.” (29 letters)
“How quickly daft jumping zebras vex!” (30 letters)
“The five boxing wizards jump quickly.” (31 letters)
“Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.” (31 letters)
“Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.” (32 letters)

Perfect pangrams

A perfect pangram contains every letter of the alphabet only once and can be considered an anagram of the alphabet. The only perfect pangrams of the English alphabet that are known use abbreviations or other non-dictionary words, such as “Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx”, or use words so obscure that the phrase is hard to understand, such as “Cwm fjord glyphs vext bank quiz” (developed by Robert L Birch (ca.1965), & improved for meaning by JRBirch), in which cwm is a loan word from the Welsh language meaning a steep-sided glaciated valley, and vext is an uncommon way to spell vexed. The meaning, clear only to those with an above average vocabulary, is less concisely that the petroglyphs found on the cwm walls of a Nordic fjord, challenged the validity of an archaeological quiz about the banks of that fjord.(–JRB)

Spanish

Benjamín pidió una bebida de kiwi y fresa. Noé, sin vergüenza, la más exquisita champaña del menú.
(“Benjamin ordered a kiwi and strawberry drink. Noah, without shame, the most exquisite champagne on the menu”) uses all diacritics and the foreign letters k and w.

Scientific Papers

The scientific paper “Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles” has a pangrammatic title, seemingly by pure chance. As of January 2022, its English Wikipedia article is the only English Wikipedia article to have a pangrammatic title without having been constructed as a pangram.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram

One more: The five boxing wizards jump quickly.


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