[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)