“Though still dizzy the injured chaffeur who wore a quaint crimson cloak gave an exact description of the vanishing automobile.”
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“Though still dizzy the injured chaffeur who wore a quaint crimson cloak gave an exact description of the vanishing automobile.”
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“All the expenses of publishing the jokes in the columns of the daily press were borne by the queer old man whose zeal never flagged.”
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“One of the men at the zoo had just recovered from an attack of smallpox when a request for his removal was made by the park commissioner.”
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I actually found a set of these that predates the typewriter: https://books.google.com/books?id=vR5AAAAAYAAJ&dq=quick%20brown%20fox%20jumps%20lazy&pg=PA127#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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And it includes what has to be a predecessor to the quick brown fox: "A big, quiet, lazy ox jumped over the workman's fence."
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(I haven't found the quick brown fox before 1885, when it suddenly appears in several newspapers and other articles starting in February.)
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Oooh, very cool. I was just looking at that phrase and surprised that it isn't much older.
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It feels like old typesetting, but it really came around when typewriters did.
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Ok I found a contest from 1854 (it also included a parts-of-speech requirement). Here's the results: https://books.google.com/books?id=kAsbAAAAYAAJ&dq=sentence%20letters%20alphabet%20%22merry's%20museum%22&pg=PA314#v=onepage&q=sentence%20letters%20alphabet%20%22merry's%20museum%22&f=false …
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Haha. Amazing. /cc @robinrendle + @GlennF
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