

Mar 17, 2016 This week’s theme

Playing with words



This week’s words

rebus

calligram

ambigram

pangram

acrostic



Photo: Chris Playing with words A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



pangram 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.

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Find pangrams in any text with the 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.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. -Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (17 Mar 1912-1987)





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