the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. My mom had to take a typing class when she was growing up, and "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" was commonly used as an exercise to learn where all the letters were on the keyboard.

See also: brown, dog, fox, jump, lazy, over, quick

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