Who came up with this sentence first: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”?
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a panagram (a phrase that uses all the letters of the alphabet) that has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards because it is coherent and short. It was known in the late 19th century, and Baden-Powell’s book Scouting for Boys (1908) used the phrase as a practice sentence for signaling. It appears as a sample typing practice in L. Bronson’s, Illustrative Shorthand, 1888.
