P.S. Another web page explains a couple of previous ones as well as a few new ones: ----- Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox (by Claude Shannon) What it means: Squat, pudgy (squdgy) brimless hat (fez), obstruct (blank) the voice (vox) of a slender (jimp) Celtic violin (crwth). Note: Vox is Latin for voice. It is not found in Merriam-Webster, except as part of the phrase vox populi (voice of the people). Bortz waqf glyphs vex muck djin (by Ed Spargo) What it means: Symbols (glyphs) indicating an Islamic endowment (waqf) of inferior diamonds (bortz) annoy (vex) dirt genies (muck djin). Jink cwm, zag veldt, fob qursh pyx (by Stephen Wagner) What it means: Move quickly with sudden turns (jink and zag) across mountain hollow (cwm) and African grassland (veldt) to deceitfully obtain (fob) a box (pyx) of Saudi coins (qursh). ----- —D. A noble endeavor. By all means please report what you find! You can get pretty far by hand if you fix the difficult letters first, like Q, J, F, V, W, ... roughly in reverse order of Scrabble tile score. The web page http://www.fun-with-words.com/pang_example.html lists these "perfect pangrams': (26) Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx. (26) Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz. (26) Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q. (26) Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox! (26) TV quiz drag nymphs blew JFK cox. (26) Q-kelt vug dwarf combs jynx phiz. Based on the length of time people have sought perfect pangrams, what I know about wordplay records, the large number of computer science people who enjoy word recreations, and the 6 pangrams mentioned above, I will go out on a limb and predict that if Keith finds any new perfect pangrams, they won't be much more satisfactory than those are, if at all. —Dan "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote: ----- Bill Gosper's recent anagrams reminded me of my search for a perfect pangram, i.e. a sentence in English containing every letter once and only once. For instance, "Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz" and "Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx," neither of which is really satisfactory. ... ... ... -----