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Pangram

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A sentence or text containing every letter of the alphabet at least once.

Detailed Definition
A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains every letter of the alphabet at least once, often used in typography or linguistics; in poetry, pangrams may serve as constrained writing exercises or conceptual frameworks, challenging poets to integrate all 26 letters while maintaining coherence, as in lipogrammatic or Oulipian practices.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”; “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs”; “How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!”; “Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow”
Additional Notes
Sentence using every letter of alphabet at least once. Crossword puzzle technique adapted to verse. Creates lexical density and inventive diction.
Also Known As
All-letter sentence Complete-alphabet text Every-letter poem A-to-Z verse
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