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From: Charles G Shirley <cshirle@sandia.gov>
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Zing! vext cwm fly jabs Kurd qoph.
That's one I recall from a book titled _Literary Oddities and
Curiosities_. The sentence describes an irritated fly from a high
mountain valley attempting to sting a Hebrew letter being written by a
Kurd. Not often useful in real life, but it is grammatically correct.
"R. Clayton" wrote:
>
> I was horrified when I realized that the sentence: "the quick brown fox
> jumped over the lazy dog" actually repeats some letters; (yes
> compulsive/obsessive personality disorder).So the problem is : "What is the
> greatest number of non-repeating alphabetic characters (case insensitive) in
> a gramatically correct English sentence."
>
> You may think this is an idle, fatuous problem but it's not. I recently bought
> a set of 26 magnetic letters for my office door and made the same shocking
> discovery that Rohan McLeod made, which immediately led me to a similar
> question: What's the best 26 non-repeating letter sentence? Unfortunately, my
> icon investigations into this problem are unfinished, having been stopped at
> the words-into-sentences part by other matters (which, co-incidentally enough,
> include the data structures course I'm teaching this summer - perhaps there is
> some synegery here too).