The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The name Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is rarely used in phrases, In Great Britain and Ireland, where there are no longer any other native wild canids, it is referred to simply as "the fox". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a 35-letter pangram (a phrase that uses all the letters of the alphabet) that has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards because it is nicely coherent and short. It was known in the late 19th century, and used in Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys (1908) as a practice sentence for signalling. In later years, the phrase was popularized by Western Union and the Telephone Company to test Telex/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability. It was often used for testing the teletype services (a procedure known as "foxing") when these machines were still used, as indicated in many reports of shortwave radio listeners to communications magazines or to services such as QTH.net.[citation needed] Many minor variations exist, including replacing one of the "the"s with an "a". Although it is the most popular, many other sentences are shorter and use each letter of the alpha bet, such as "The five boxing wizards jump quickly." In Windows XP, an alternative message Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. 123456890 is added, depending on the combination of locale settings and supported code page table in the font being viewed. In addition, localized versions of Microsoft Windows use different sample texts when viewing local language fonts. In Windows Vista, the Jackdaw phrase is no longer available, but the alternative localized string feature is still available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

A phrase that uses every letter of the alphabet is called a "pangram." Here is a list of a few others: # Big fjords vex quick waltz nymph. (27 letters) # Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps. (28 letters) # Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs. (28 letters) # Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex! (28 letters) # Fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz. (28 letters) # Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox. (28 letters) # Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf. (28 letters) # Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack. (29 letters) # Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. (29 letters) # Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim. (29 letters) # Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. (29 letters) # Sex-charged fop blew my junk TV quiz (29 letters) # How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (30 letters) # Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz. (30 letters) # "Now fax quiz Jack!" my brave ghost pled. (30 letters)