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Irene and Eric's ten-month-old daughter Cheyanne kindly lent Olive her alphabet babymat (twenty-eight interlocking squares, one for each letter of the alphabet plus two extras). The logical thing would have been to construct the mat A to Z with the two spare squares at the end but far more exciting (for me!) was to create a perfect pangram, a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet only once. Yes, similar to "A quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" but that's a long pangram that repeats several letters. I wanted a sentence that contains twenty-six letters where each letter of the alphabet is only used once. Of course, by the end of the day I hadn't come up with anything so I checked on Wikipedia for a list of pangrams.

Below is this week's babymat pangram: the more difficult version has a real baby (Olive was kind enough to volunteer) obscuring some letters …

the easier version sans baby …

This pangram, which contains acronyms, two blank squares as commas and relies on the singular plural of a medium-sized wild cat, was created by Bobby LaPointe.

Do suggest some more pangrams (not from Wikipedia).