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A pangram is a sentence that has all 26 letters of the English alphabet
Updated : Feb 13, 2017, 12:06 PM IST
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is a known bibliophile. The former UN Under Secretary General is He is also a recipient of several awards that include a Commonwealth Writers Prize and is also the author of 15 books.
Given his command over the English language and his eloquent use of words, Tharoor on Sunday shared an interesting post on the shortest possible sentence using all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most famous sentence, known as a pangram, is “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” for years. That’s 32 letters.
Tharoor claims to have found a new winner with 30 letters. This is what he posted
In the meantime, Tharoor’s post has his followers quite amused. Some loved the word play, while others thought he should employ his time in other pursuits.