A lovely word. It contains much more than 'blossoming,' for example, does.
Which reminds me. From Wordsmith, nice pangrams children might enjoy:
pangram (PAN-gram, -gruhm, PANG-) noun
A sentence that makes use of all the letters of the alphabet.
[From Greek pan- (all) + -gram (something written).]
Many typists know "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" as a
thirty-three-letter sentence that employs every letter in the alphabet at
least once. Now fix your eyes on a sampling of the best pangrams of even
fewer letters. What you are about to see are meaningful sentences that
avoid obscure words yet contain every letter of the alphabet:
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (thirty-two letters)
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. (thirty-one)
How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (thirty)
Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. (twenty-nine)
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud. (twenty-eight)
And now, wordaholics, logolepts, lexicomanes, and verbivores -- the Peter
Pangram of all pangrams --
Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. (twenty-six!) |
