[GreenKeys] TTY Test Text

Sam Hallas [email protected]
Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:16:42 +0100


Doug Alderdice wrote:

>
> Seems like I have seen a "Queen's English" version that went something 
> like "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED RIGHT OVER THE LAZY DOG."  Ask me 
> where I saw it, though.  Maybe I imagined it.
>
> Maybe our UK list members can confirm or deny it.
>
Never heard of it. The pangram (ie sentence with all the letters of the 
alphabet) is:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
But the teleprinter test text - following a discussion of here some time 
ago - appears to be:
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK TESTING 1234567890
which you will see is exactly 70 characters long.

There are several web sites offering a bewildering array of pangrams, 
but I must admit I've never seen the foreign language ones further down 
this thread.

Cheers,

Sam (G8EXV)