A pangramme (from Greek "all" and "letter") is a sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet. With a little ingenuity, it is easy to create the model of reflexive sentences: "Imagine that the text contains the alphabet, ten vowels, k and w "(Teresa Amiel).

In French, a pangramme obviously can not be less than 26 letters (42 if you count the accented letters and ligatures of the French alphabet , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and ). If we can reach the theoretical limit using massively to abbreviations and acronyms , the talent is to construct a coherent sentence as short as possible, without letters solitary or abbreviation or acronym.

One purpose of a pangramme is to test typewriters. It is also used in typography for testing typefaces.

" Wear the old jumped over the blonde who smokes is probably the most famous French pangramme ^{Examples pangrammes}

Without accented letters

Some other pangrammes, literally more or less successful. Only those sentences with (almost) makes sense, and properly granted. They are "without accented letters" because they did not have to put them all. By cons, some may hold.

• I saw a punk Afghan and two clowns zygomatic incredible. (Kanarob) (55)
• Tarpaulins the tail of the wagon taxi with fakir's pajamas. (Anonymous) (55)
• Mr. Jack, you type much better than your friend Wolf (used in the Swiss army to test the TTY keyboard. She has no accent because they could not be transmitted) (55)
• Ambiguous voice of a heart, the zephyr, prefers bowls of kiwifruit. (Anonymous) (53) (used as a demonstration of some sentence typographic fonts, including those of Windows)
• My poor zebu stiff shocks twice your car yellow (Anonymous) (48)
• The strong breeze on kumquats jubilant clown charge. (Sentence used as demonstration fonts in older versions of Mac OS ) (46)
• Damn! I think the dog invigorating Sambuca prefers whiskey to the sweet port wine. (Replaces the previous one in more recent versions) (64)
• See this game Exquisite Walloon spelling of kit but brief. (Caroline Vaillant) (44)
• Prove, handsome judge, the famous sandwich yak kills. (Richard Barbeau) (42)
• Old coat that I edit: Broadtail or yak? (Frdric Schmitter) (40)
• Fiery, I will make drunk at the squaw pack zythum beautiful. (Richard Barbeau) (40)
• Ketch, yawl, junk ... think spanking new prices! (Lawrence Chaussard) (40)
• See the giant brick I look around the wharf. (Used by the ITU ) (39)
• Wear this old blonde who jumped over the smoke. (Anonymous) (37) (often used as sentence demonstration, easy to remember because it is a perfect and Alexandria each consonant there is only once)
• Imagine an old malt whiskey dark blond. (Renaud Lavigne) (37)
• Drink the whiskey that the judge famous boss. (Anonymous) (36)
• False kwacha? What travel plans Zambian! (Gilles Esposito-Farese) (36)
• The peasant with false Broadtail trip. (Gilles Esposito-Farese) (36)
• Kiwi bland apteryx, ham what you waste! (Gilles Esposito-Farese) (35)
• Knave, mix the abject whiskey drain. (Jean-Luc Pidanna) (34)
• J. Lively, soak the blond watery whiskey. (Jean-Luc Pidanna) (33)
• Vivid CEO mentor, show the squaw jockey. (Jean-Luc Pidanna) (32)
• Judge, flaming the exquisite patchwork of Yvon. (Teresa Amiel) (32)
• Perch ten, twenty woks. What I flamed? (Frdric Schmitter) (30)

It seems we could not create a pangramme less than 30 letters in rendering the sentence unintelligible - it is no longer French! - Pangrammes and less than 28 letters, invaded abbreviations, proper names or acronyms, make little sense:

• Whisky Green: judge fox five straight. (OuLiPo) (29)
• Vamp Keep five flows: Subject Whisky. (Olivier Hamel) (29)
• Jerk! zig came: body, phlox, musk, waqf. (Pascal Kaeser) (28)
• Dam, twenty cocks, flow, job, zephyr, kwa. (Olivier Hamel) (28)
• Clown HQ: rhythm kJ BF ten, please. (Renaud Lavigne) (26) (with HQ: Headquarters , kJ: kilojoules , LF: low frequency and please: please)

Georges Perec combines pangramme and lipogram in The Disappearance , a novel that does not use the letter e . It creates a sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet, except e:

• Carry ten good whiskey to the lawyer who was smoking at the zoo cad (Georges Perec) (51)

Mariensk Helena , in a pastiche of Georges Perec (a chapter of the highest degree of tenderness), published in several e pangrammes lipogram including:

• Soft but strong, a judoka yachting club said in zigs why Walloon (57)

With accented letters

Pangrammes These are called "with accented letters" because it was obliged to put them all, and attaches the same C, namely thus: to, , , , , , I, I, O , u, u, ,. The case of ligatures that are and is a bit unusual: some pangrammes ignore, others include them. As for the Y, it seems he is in no word of French. It may be mentioned, however, two names of French towns: L'Hay-les-Roses and Mo de l'Aisne and Clos the street in Paris. Finally, e is always there from the French spelling corrections in 1990 that recommend to write unambiguous and ambiguous rather than acute rather than acute? Yes, of course: in Christmas.

• Wear that old jumped over the blonde who smokes on her inner island, next to the oval alcove, where the logs burn in the fire, which allows him to think about cnognse to be discussed in cause ambiguous Mo heard in a mess that thinks it, here and there diminishes the quality of his work.
• The island cramped Where the jury obese couples Volapk Celebrates hated, Donkey tied at whist, Remove this vow disappointed. (Missing in)

• From Christmas where I hated dresses zephyr Wrm ice, I dine exquisite roast beef Kir AY Mature & etcetera! (Used as a demonstration sentence fonts in the desktop environment GNOME )

• I'm sure the gaiety of ambiguous funny boy who drank whiskey and made the old badger on a zebra for Christmas in the canyon, was beneficial to the soul of the poet pale, and his heart and etcetera! ( JPaul White)
• Zig-lex tram I saw violated in chapka
• Early on the Hawaiian rider wearing a bikini and jewelry at the heart received the acrid sting of unemployment Aztec came from the island where his frail canoe (Mendoza) ( just missing)

References

See also

• Pangramme self-describing
• Pun
• False-text
• Heterogram

External link

• (En) Small lessons typography, Jacques Andre

• Games portal

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