#quikscript

Ah, what j-oi she (the g-ay w-ih-ch) y-oo-zh-oo-uh-l-[ih] f-ow-n-d b-ai p-ue-t-ing h-eh-ks-z on eh-gz-ah-k-t-l-[ih] TH-r-ee s-m-awe-l v-o-l-z Ah, what joy she (the gay witch) usually found by putting hexes on exactly three small voles!

Now there are only 9 redundancies across 51 characters, as I was able to remove the Utter and No in "unusual", though I did end up moving the It from "in" to make "usually"

Sadly, I don't think it's as fun to not qualify the hexes as unusual, but it is better than saying "usual hexes." That would be objectively better for saving characters, at 50 w/ 8 redundancies, but it would sound awkward and be conceptually a little boring in my opinion, and I just won't stand for that

So I decided to try relaxing my standards a bit and just going for a sentence that works and not sweat a couple of redundancies, though I still tried to keep them to a minimum

To that end, my pangram came out to be:

What j-oy she, the g-ay w-ih-ch, f-ow-n-d b-ai p-ue-t-ing uh-n-y-oo-zh-oo-uh-l h-eh-ks-z on eh-gz-ah-k-t-l-[ih] TH-r-ee s-m-ah-l v-oh-l-z in awe What joy she, the gay witch, found by putting unusual hexes on exactly three small voles in awe.

That gives me 53 characters total with 11 redundant graphemes

I imagine a more skilled linguist could have figured out a way to do it more succinctly, but I rather like what I came up with, and I feel pretty accomplished finally getting it done after several days of struggle

So far I've got

"What j-oy the w-i-ch f-ou-n-d p-u-t-ing k-ah-zh-u-uh-l h-eh-ks-z on b-ah-th-uh-r-s-uh-m..."

[Italics are words that are abbreviated to one letter, specifically the letters Why, They, and Ox; bolds are repeated letters]

I have Gay, Vie, She, Ye, Eat, Eight, I, Awe, Owe and Exam (gz) left to work with, but I don't know if I can make much more out of their constituent sounds without repeating anything else

The Platonic ideal would be exactly 44 characters (the 25 consonants, 15 vowels, two X's and the two Scottish/Welsh exclusives), but I have no idea if that's even possible, especially since I don't know any words that can use the Scottish/Welsh sounds

I've been going for the 42 I know I can use, though I could reasonably get away without the X's since they're special characters, and technically there's no reason to use WHy or Ox since those don't appear in American English anyway

If I really wanted to fudge it, I think doing it with the 38 I'd actually use consistently would be acceptable, but I'm trying to make something that would make a good tool for practicing penmanship for both myself and anyone else

"On" is apparently supposed to be "ɒn," but I hear it as "ɔn" (more of an "awe" sound)

The example word for ɒ is "ox," but in American English that uses "a"!

Not? a!

Every word that seems like it's supposed to use the ɒ sound, it seems more appropriate to use a or ɔ, and I'm starting to think it might not even actually exist in American English