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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Word-game type questions
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 06:53:52 GMT
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Not so very long ago, tim@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw said...
>Four "sentences" using all 26 letters, each of them once only (not mine, of
>course.  Sorry I can't cite the source(s)):
>
>Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.
>
>Few mock quartz glyph's BVD jinx.
>
>TV quiz drag nymph blew Cox, JFK.
>
>XV quick nymphs beg fjord waltz.

  Don't forget:

    Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.

  This one uses each consonant once each, and duplicates only vowels:

    Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

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