I knew there was some phrase shorter than “The quick brown fox . . . ” that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet, but I couldn’t remember it. So I started poking around and came across some anagrams which are words or phrases consisting of the same letters (“stop” and “post”). Here is a great one, where each phrase has the same letters, but it is also mathematically correct:<\/p>\n
“Eleven plus two” and “Twelve plus one”<\/p>\n
That’s almost as good as “Rocket Boys” and “October Sky”<\/p>\n
Oh . . . and I found several shorter versions of quick brown fox, but this is the best:<\/p>\n
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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