This week’s theme
Playing with words

This week’s words
rebus
calligram
ambigram
pangram
acrostic

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(PAN-gram, -gruhm, PANG-)

MEANING:

noun: A sentence that makes use of all the letters of the alphabet.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek pan- (all) + -gram (something written). Earliest documented use: 1873.

NOTES:

The best-known pangram is: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. Here’s a pangram that makes use of the whole alphabet in a 26-letter sentence: Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.
What pangrams can you come up with? Share them below or email words@wordsmith.org.

Find pangrams in any text with the Pangram Finder.

USAGE:

“‘Whatcha working on, kid? Something new for me?’ ...
‘Pangram,’ Bill said with the curtness of a drill sergeant.
‘When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat.’”
George Wright Padgett; Cruel Devices; Grey Gecko Press; 2014.

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