The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog: Difference between revisions

The phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (or "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", or any of several similar sentences) has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards, because it is a coherent, short pangram. Only the letters "a", "e", "o", "r", and "u" are used more than once, each being used twice, except for "o" which is used four times.

In the age of computers, the sentence is often used as a sample text in font selection contexts.

This sentence is frequently mis-quoted as "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", which does not contain all the letters of the alphabet since it lacks the letter "s". For this reason, the word "slow" or "sleeping" is sometimes inserted into the phrase, or the word "dog" is made plural.

The phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" can be generated in the English Microsoft Word by typing =rand() and pressing the ENTER key.

In the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, the inventor of the phrase lives on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina.

The phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" has also been used to test the skills of keyboardists, but is not a pangram.

See also

• Lorem ipsum

External links

• Sentences that contain all letters commonly used in a language
• List of English sentences that contain all letters of the alphabet

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