If you ever took a typing class than you probably had the experience of typing:The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
This phrase is an example of a pangram, a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. When I taught keyboarding to middle schoolers I often used this phrase to help kids see which letters were giving them problems. My typing teacher back in my old high school did the same thing for me. (To me?)
I used to make up my own pangrams to spice things up a little. It gets boring typing the same thing over and over again. I was reminded of this when I ran across Pangramaday, the website of a person that writes a pangram each day. They are much more poetic than the lame ones I created. They'd be fun to add into your drill and practice. The kids will think you are awesome. Parents will think you are clever. Principals will congratulate themselves for hiring you. All this praise because of a simple sentence that turns your youngsters into speed typists.
Some examples from the site:
- Thunderstorms beat a quickstep across the valley; forget what quiet jazz existed.
- I noticed his glazed pompadour had acquired a killer swoop; a foxy wave befitting a jester.
- Albuquerque nights project fake moonlight over wide expanses of brazen sky.
I got curious if there were any other panagram sites out there as Pangramaday doesn't have a lot of choices as of yet. The author is going to add one each morning but he has only been writing them for a few weeks. I searched and here are a few examples out of the thousands of pages about panagrams available.
- Wikipedia has a page devoted to panagrams.
- Panagram page at Fun With Words.
- The Pangram Page
[Image is my own creation...yes I know I just typed the alphabet in Photoshop and added a triangle. But it's a nice shade of green don't you think?]
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