The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog facts for kids

The phrase shown in metal moveable type, used in printing presses (image reversed for readability)

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram. This is a sentence that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. The "quick brown fox" is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, and displaying examples of fonts. It can be used when all the letters in the alphabet need to be shown. Because it is a short sentence which makes sense it has become widely known.

Images for kids

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  Item from the February 9, 1885, edition of The Boston Journal mentioning the phrase "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

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  The phrase being used in a BBC Ceefax test from 1972.

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In Spanish: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog para niños