The shortest sentence with all letters

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Bibu  #148070  Sat, 15 Oct 05 12:28 PM
I have recently reached to the shortest sentence with all letters;lazy,&quick tv-show frog jumped in a bx.(bx. is an approved abbreviation of box).Only a,i,o,and u are repeated,and all are vowels!Thank God!and thank you!
  
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I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL PEOPLE IN THIS GREAT SITE.I CAME UPON THE SHORTEST SENTENCE THAT CONTAINS ALL LETTERS;I SAW TV,DRANK FIZY GUM & HELPED JACQ IN A BOX(34 LETTERS)2 WORDS...
A|X-nyc-  #148611  Mon, 17 Oct 05 02:26 AM
You could make a sentence with just 2 letters..."Go"
  
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Anonymous  #193831  Tue, 07 Feb 06 07:17 PM
Facetious also has all the vowels but they are in order.
  
Anonymous  #465094  Wed, 16 Jan 08 07:33 PM
Technically, "facetiously" is the shortest word with all 6 vowels in order. You forgot 'y' which is sometimes a vowel (like in this case).
  
Anonymous  #562986  Fri, 05 Sep 08 11:49 PM
delete all punctuation

use 'and' instead of '&'     (still one word)

use 'television' instead of 'tv'  (still one word)



abbreviations are not allowed.


hint:  look at the standard keyboard; use only the keys with a single alphabet letter


Trivia:  as far as I know, the common sentence(s) with all the alphabet began as a typing exercise. 

If one types:  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

fifty times without looking at the keyboard 

with no mistakes

then, do it again

voila!  a typist!

[The next step is to learn the numbers  1 through 0  without looking at the keyboard]

another hint:  the trick to typing is in placement of the fingers on the keyboard on the 'at rest' position.
  
Anonymous  #562987  Fri, 05 Sep 08 11:54 PM
I hate to burst your bubble, but technically, 'Go' is not a sentence. 

A sentence must have a subject and a verb, which is a minimum of two words.

There are many two-word sentences, but an old favorite is

Edward Lears' treatise on      Germs

Adam hadem
  
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