NP word play

[Doug Millison]

>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:03:02 -0400
>From: Wordsmith <wsmith at wordsmith.org>
>Subject: A.Word.A.Day--pangram
>
>pangram (PAN-gram, -gruhm, PANG-) noun
>
>   A sentence that makes use of all the letters of the alphabet.
>
>[From Greek pan- (all) + -gram (something written).]
>
>Many typists know "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" as a
>thirty-three-letter sentence that employs every letter in the alphabet at
>least once. Now fix your eyes on a sampling of the best pangrams of even
>fewer letters. What you are about to see are meaningful sentences that
>avoid obscure words yet contain every letter of the alphabet:
>
>Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (thirty-two letters)
>Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. (thirty-one)
>How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (thirty)
>Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. (twenty-nine)
>Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud. (twenty-eight)
>Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymph. (twenty-seven)
>
>And now, wordaholics, logolepts, lexicomanes, and verbivores -- the Peter
>Pangram of all pangrams --
>
>Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. (twenty-six!)
>
>If you can come up with a twenty-six letter pangram that makes easy sense
>and does not resort to names, initials, or mutant words, please rush it to
>me at richard.lederer at pobox.com.
>
>This week's theme: words about wordplay by guest wordsmith Richard Lederer.
>

>Pronunciation:
>http://wordsmith.org/words/pangram.wav
>http://wordsmith.org/words/pangram.ram
>