Re: Cwm fjord bank glyphs vex't quiz.

From: Timothy Partridge (timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 09 1997 - 14:13:18 EDT


In message <9706082106.AA10515@unicode.org> you recently said:

> At 09:33 -0700 1997-06-07, Unicode Discussion wrote:
> >I'm responding to a claim about:
> >"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz."
> >
> >(Sorry, I've lost the original message.)
> >
> >The only perfect English pangram I know is:
> >
> >"Cwm fjord bank glyphs vex't quiz."
> >
> >But then, some people object that that's not English :-)
> >But look up CWM, the only English (via Welsh) word I know
> >without a vowel!
>
> W is most certainly a vowel in Welsh.

Y isn't officially in English, even though it is often given
a vowel sound. So GLYPHS doesn't have a vowel in it either.
Some people know more than they think they do.

   Tim

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