“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs” is the shortest sentence in the English language, to my knowledge, that contains every letter. In my second grade class, we were introduced with this famous sentence and then given the assignment to create a sentence of our own that contains every letter. This is what I came up with:
“When I went to the Bronx Zoo one day and saw the ducks, I went quackers!”
Hmmm, I remember the sentence, but just looking back now I seem to have forgotten the letters f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, p, and v...D’oh! This topic has backfired on me. I doubt Mrs. Brachio gave me a check with three stars on this assignment. Today and then, however, I still think the use of “Bronx Zoo” showed a genius in me; it took care of ‘x’ and ‘z’, two toughie letters. Those are three-pointers in Scrabble, if I’m not mistaken.
OK, so I may have botched the assignment, but it could be that I had thrown in *many* other clauses that to take care of the letters that I’ve gotten about: “...to the Bronx Zoo, past the fire truck, through the gate, etc.” Not very concise and also poor English, but I was only seven.
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