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From: das@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Alphabet soup
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Date: Sun, 12-May-85 00:00:06 EDT
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What is the current record for shortest meaningful sentence that uses all the
letters of the alphabet?  For some time, I've known about

	Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.   (32 letters)

and a few months ago learned of

	Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.     (31 letters)

A few days ago, I heard

	Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!      (28 letters!)

It's appealing because of the waltz-jig tie-in.  Who discovered it?  (Actually,
it came to me as "Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.", and I played with it
to remove the proper noun.)

-- David Smallberg, das@{ucla-cs.ARPA,cs.ucla.edu}, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das