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...woozy on the old pins
The Oxford English Dictionary ran a search for pangrams in their example sentences. (A pangram is a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet.)
Amongst them was this beautiful accidental example from Caitlin Moran in the Times, 1993-07-10:
"Coming back from a jolly night out, slightly tanked up and woozy on the old pins, a quick blast of Bhangra would have me dancing exotic and erotic moves until I tripped over the cat."
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last night I realized that "Quixote" and "Panza" together contain 3 rare consonants and all 5 English vowels, and messed around for a bit trying to write a pangram about them
(at one point the only letters I had left were f, c, and k, so you can imagine where that ended up :-/ )
of course today I discovered that a lot of people have had the same idea and actually succeeded in writing pangrams about these characters that are elegant, clever, and not vulgar.
I think my favorite is "Panza observed Quixote fiercely jousting windmill knights".
(though why not get it 3 letters shorter and make it "Panza observed Quixote fiercely joust windmill knights"?)
I've seen a lotta people say that their screen readers can't read a lotta special characters; even ones that're just Latin letters in fancy fonts… So, I have a question for people who use those: can your screen reader read this Shavian alphabet pangram, or no…? 🤔
𐑣𐑽𐑦𐑙 𐑥𐑰 𐑚𐑴, 𐑞 𐑨𐑠𐑼 𐑔𐑮𐑳𐑖 𐑒𐑷𐑟. 𐑺 𐑘𐑹 𐑡𐑶𐑓𐑩𐑤 𐑸𐑾, 𐑲 𐑝𐑬, “𐑿 𐑢𐑪𐑯𐑑 𐑜𐑫𐑛 𐑗𐑭. 𐑧𐑕𐑱 𐑐𐑵-𐑻!”
Yup, it reads this nonsense just fine! 😂
It reads it, but the pronunciation doesn't seem right? 😵💫
Nope, it can't read it… Bummer. 🫤
Note: apologies to non-screen reader users, it says I can't edit the poll block now that this is published, so I can't add a “see results” option for y'all. 🤦🏻♀️ I'll do that next time, if I don't use up all the slots like I usually do. 😅
End-of-poll update: okay, wow…! May've gotten a really tiny number of votes, but these results are still interesting! ⅔ straight-up yes, ⅓ no? That's like, genuinely so cool that a majority could read it & do it well; I'm glad! 👏🏻
Last year I posted this cross stitch Ouija pattern I made that I've been tinkering with off and on since then. Here is where it's at, and I think this is the final version before I really should stitch the dang thing already.
Also, alphabets being what they are, are you allowed to make a ouija board like this? I thought it was fun but it might confuse the spirits you want to talk to.
I'm thinking of putting these and maybe some other patterns I've accumulated on StitchFiddle onto Gumroad, we'll see.
Finished all the letters for my game font based on my handwriting! This was a super satisfying exercise and I'm glad I revisited it. Some letters are a little too bold but I might clean that up when I go back and do the rest of the punctuation.
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I really don’t like how “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is everyone’s go-to example of a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. Not only is it boring, it’s really easy to screw up. Often times people will say “jumped” instead of “jumps,” and then you don’t have an S.
Here are some better, more interesting ones: “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!” “Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.” “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.” “When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat.” “Why zip along quick, fam? Just relax and vibe.”
Pangrams are sentences that contain all of the letters of the alphabet, like the famous "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and the more obscure "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!".
In this episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about pangrams and the further questions that they raise about the structure of various languages. How short can you get an English pangram without becoming incoherent? Which characters are hard to include in different languages? Do accented characters count as separate letters? What kinds of using-every-symbol writing can you make with non-alphabetic writing systems?
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pangram
I wanted to write a post for this word after I rediscovered my favorite one: “sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.” A pangram is a short phrase or sentence which, written out, contains all of the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Some of them make more sense than others (squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox), but they’re actually quite fun to play with linguistically.
Pangram is a combination of two morphemes, pan- + gram. Pan is a direct borrowing from the Ancient Greek παν- pan-, the combining form of the determiner πᾶς pas, which means “each, all, every.” -gram comes from Ancient Greek as well, specifically the noun γράμμα gramma, meaning “an alphabetic letter, writing or something drawn.” It’s root verb is γρᾰ́φω, gráphō, “inscribe, or write.”
Interestingly, γράμμα could also mean “a measure or weight,” and this sense is borrowed from the Semitic family of languages where it is related to the Aramaic grwm “bone, fruit pit” and the Classical Syriac ܓܪܡܐ garma, “stone of fruit, kernel, bone.”
