The quick brown fox

[E Wayles Browne]

Yes, that's how it's usually cited, with _jumps_;
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
But you get a more nearly minimal pangram by removing one of the _the_s and changing the participants around:
Lazy dogs jump over the quick brown fox.
--
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] The quick brown fox

>>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog?
>
>I can't get past the English.
>
>Where is the letter S?
>Am I missing something (I've had a long day, half of it on planes)
>--  or is there a word or something absent here?
>Should it be "foxes"?

No, "jumps."



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