Anyone who learned to type had to
practice typing, “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog!”
This was a shortest sentence which
had all 26 letters of the English language. It was accepted that ‘E’ was the
most used letter in the English language.
This classic phrase today has been
replaced by, “Pack My Box with 5 Dozen Liquor Jugs!”
It took many years and five dozen
liquor jugs to improve upon an age old test sentence!
There are some advantages to liquor!
There are always exception to the
rule.
Once Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar,
Bengali poet and scholar, jokingly asked Michael Madhusudhan Dutt, an
Anglophile poet of great repute; “As you are a Master in English, can you make
a sentence without using a single ’E’?"
Dutt, the genius, wrote this:
_"I doubt I can. It’s a major
part of many words. Omitting it is as hard as making muffins without flour.
It’s as hard as spitting without saliva, napping without a pillow, driving a
train without tracks, sailing to Russia without a boat, washing your hands
without soap. And, anyway, what would I gain? An award? A cash bonus? Bragging
rights? Why should I strain my brain? It’s not worth it!”