A Challenge!

Macaroon

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Here's a challenge for those amongst us who like such things; one of my nieces has been asked, as part of a university project, to cobble together as many as possible of the following.....

Compose a sentence or phrase in which all the letters of the alphabet are used but none repeated, so there would be all 26 letters used just the once. It's acceptable to make use of commonly heard foreign words or phrases.

That's exactly what she's been asked to do, and I'm not even sure it's possible. I've been mulling it over this past hour or so and I'm really intrigued; I'm going to sleep on it and then give it some attention tomorrow, and for some time beyond that, I fear :confused:

I wonder if anybody else might come up with something?
 

Harvestman

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"A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

This is a known solution to the problem, and I believe the shortest grammatically correct sentence with all 26 letters. 7 letters too many, using 2a, 4o, 2r, 2u and 2e.
 
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Macaroon

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Wowzer! I wasn't sure anybody would take an interest in this one; Mike, I didn't know whether this was a known thing, a chestnut.......

I'm off to sleep, thanks for your interest :)
 

mick91

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Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx
Perfect pangram there I think

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Macaroon

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Great stuff, folks; the more the merrier!

@ Demographic: "They're called perfect pangrams. Can she use abbreviations and/or acronyms?" Yes, she is as otherwise it's pretty undoable.........it's a fairly loose brief but no completely off the wall stuff.
 

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