who started the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."?

Answer 1

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a pangram that has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards because it is coherent, short, and contains all the letters of the English alphabet. The pangram was developed by Western Union to test Telex/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability. It was often used for testing the teletype services (a procedure known as "foxing") when these machines were still used.[citation needed] In the age of computers, it is often used as a sample text in font selection contexts.

The phrase is frequently misquoted as "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", which does not contain all the letters of the alphabet since it lacks the letter "s". For this reason, the word "slow" or "sleeping" is sometimes inserted into the phrase, or the word "dog" is made plural.

Answer 2

Thats the typing phrase. Has every letter of the alphabet. We used to type that over & over to learn where all the letters on the typewriter are. But I don't know who started it.

Answer 3

It was designed to test out font b/c if you look closely it uses all the letter of the alphabet.

Answer 4

i don't know who started it but it is used to write every letter in one sentence for school children

Answer 5

"pangrams", or "holalphabetic sentences...

thats what this sentence is... its just a sentence that has every letter from the alphabet in it... god wrote it..

Answer 6

school teachers in the 1800s who wanted their kids to learn all the letters in the alphabet, it is useful in typing as well

Answer 7

Here's some detailed info on it . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_brown_fox

Answer 8

My dear mother

Answer 9

I did! ha ha ha....