-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Nancy Backus on 05-09-19  00:14 <=-

 DS>> I remember "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of
 DS>> their country", and "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
 DS>> dog"...the latter, because it has every letter in the alphabet at
 DS>> least once.
 NB>> Except that there is no "S" in the sentence as you remember it...
 NB>> Ed's way with "dogs back" added the S to the sentence....  Perhaps
 NB>> the original was simply "over the lazy dogs"...  

 ML> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the current proper
 ML> phrase... it used to start with "A" instead of "The" but there was only
 ML> three years between the two forms...

RIGHT!!  Now I remember... And yes, I originally learned it starting
with "A" instead of "The".... 

ttyl         neb

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