For anyone that plays Wordle on NYT Games site, there is another anagramming game called Spelling Bee in which the notion of a pangram is featured prominently. Basically, you get a set of letters from which to build anagrams (one privileged letter must appear in all your anagrams). Pangrams are considered to be any anagram which makes use of all the given letters and it will flash the word 'Pangram' on the screen when you get them, to give you a minor nerdy dopamine hit.
I am addicted to the game and get pissed at myself if I don't get to the top scoring tier every day.
I play that every day. I do my best and once I've given up by the evening time (it resets at midnight Pacific), I go to this site and see how much better I can do with the prefixes. You can tweak the checkboxes to show you more or less, all the way up to revealing the answers. Great site.
Thanks! I love it so much. The one thing that annoys me is that it rejects anything that it considers to be domain knowledge or some such criteria. For example, today you'd think you could use 'potto', which is a cool animal in the loris family. But nope, Spelling Bee seemingly rejects it because it considers it to be specialized zoological knowledge or something. BS.
When you get them all, it's "Queen Bee." I've only ever gotten it once -- for whatever reason, the puzzle just clicked that day -- but it was extremely satisfying.
Inverse pangram challenge? This string is a frequency map of English letter usage in words (relative to the least common, q = 1). How many different sentences can be constructed from it, using all letters once (using say, the scrabble dictionary as the list of acceptable words)?
> I have a feeling this blows up pretty fast, computationally.
Of course it does, but there's no way to compute the number without checking all combinations. There are hundreds of thousands of English words, and about the only initial filtering you can do is remove words with more than one q. Each partition will contain at least 20 words, so have >20! permutations.
I wrote a multi-threaded anagram engine some years ago in Rust. It uses dynamic programming to linearize the problem as much as possible. The word list I typically use it with is not comprehensive by any means. I've taken words out, for instance, that would upset people to see in anagrams of their names (not fart, say, but you can imagine the sort of thing). Even with a simple set of word counts the number of anagrams, excluding permutations, of even simple things is vast. I get 6 from my handle here, which itself isn't very promising. A challenging short name like "Elon Musk" (it has a "k"), gives 36 (examples, "sulk omen" and "elk muons"). Things blow up quickly. My own name, including the middle name, has 23 characters, none of them difficult. The program finds 37,277,770, again, not including permutations. So with your character counts I think you're looking at a pretty big number. And you can blow it up further with a bigger, less polite word list.
In Sanskrit, where poets have endlessly delighted in playing such tricks with language, there are at least a couple of such verses that contain all the consonants in order: one composed in a live performance by a poet who lived 1854–1914, one from the 11th century or earlier (https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/21366).
It's a fun programming/puzzle challenge. I developed a perfect pangram in Dutch about a teachers bike that is very lightweight and fast, but not so strong
"C.Q." is an abbreviation that could mean different things depending on the context. It is not a widely recognized or commonly used abbreviation, and its meaning is not immediately clear. Can you provide some more information or context about it?
In amateur radio, especially CW/morse code, CQ means "looking for someone to talk to". It's an abbreviated homonym for "seek you".
If you hear "CQ CQ CQ de WB6NOA" being transmitted, it would mean the person who owns call sign WB6NOA is looking to talk to someone on this frequency.
In Dutch, c.q. is an abbreviation of the Latin term casu quo, meaning "or instead, alternatively" (lit. in which case). It doesn't really fit here because it suggests that vlot (quick) and zwak (weak) are interchangeable adjectives -- nor does it match the English usage of the same term, where it is used more like a premise/supposition rather than a conjunction.
I asked it to produce a perfect pangram, which uses each letter once and only once. It unsurprisingly couldn't do it despite explicit instructions. It did produce several known examples of pangrams using all 26 letters but didn't seem to have "Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx" memorized.
Suppose that someone submitted a pull request that remedied a problem in the Coq proof assistant in a somewhat-too-clever way, but it was nonetheless approved by Coq developer Jim Fehrle.
> Other writing systems may present more options: The Iroha is a well-known perfect pangram of the Japanese syllabary
You still occasionally come across dictionaries ordered by this poem.
In word (and probably all word processors with proper Japanese support) you can make bullet list that follows this poem instead of going 1-2-3 or A-B-C.
Back in my Apple fanboy days, I was delighted to come across a pangram referring to Jobs and Wozniak, but I can no longer quite recall it, and my Google Fu is failing me.
I think it was:
Jobs and Wozniak quibble mightily over expensive coffee.
It checks out, but it feels weird that I can't find a reference to it online.
When the Wordle craze happened, I wanted to come up with the best four word combo that hit as many common letters as possible. Not quite a pangram, but pretty close, and as memorable as possible.
"DWARF CLUBS MOPEY THING". All it's missing are JZXQVK.
It gets deleted periodically for Wikipedian reasons like "It is mostly comprised of nonsense phrases thought up by people who apparently find this sort of thing terribly clever."
The deletion of wikipedia articles makes no sense to me and always feels to me like a random editor going on a power trip
I routinely try to look something up that I remember had a page 5 years ago but now redirects to some 'list of x' page where instead of having a full article about it, it is just a bullet point with no description. Why delete the article? Definitely not to make the site better...
I think I know where the bug is: there needs to be 26 unique characters. The first letter is capitalized and there's a space.... so technically, 26 ASCII chars - but not all 26 letters of the alphabet.
It's not slippery, it's just that it is not constrained to only make claims it can verify (and it's not obvious it's even aiming at validity/truthfulness in the first place).
ChatGPT seems to give incomplete pangrams. It's also bad at counting syllables in poetry. I think it is just bad at counting; much room to improve here.
I am addicted to the game and get pissed at myself if I don't get to the top scoring tier every day.
EDIT: Removed spoilers for future readers.