What is the Longest Meaningful English Sentence with No Repeating Letters?

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The longest meaningful English sentence with no repeating letters is a linguistic challenge that has garnered interest in various forums. While the shortest known pangram is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," it allows letter repetition. A notable example of a non-repeating sentence is "Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q," which requires an extensive vocabulary. The discussion clarifies that while pangrams use all letters, the focus here is on constructing sentences without any letter repetitions.

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This puzzle came to my mind, but I do not have an answer in place.

What's the longest meaningful English sentence with no repeating letters? (means, the longest sentence can have a maximum 26 letters; of course, proper nouns excluded)
 
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jobyts said:
This puzzle came to my mind, but I do not have an answer in place.

What's the longest meaningful English sentence with no repeating letters? (means, the longest sentence can have a maximum 26 letters; of course, proper nouns excluded)

I don't know about the longest one but here's the shortest one (or at least that's what the typewriter manufacturers used to say):


The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
 
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

This puzzles been around for a bit: so long in fact there is a name for it. Their called Panagrams. I am sure something like a google search will turn up a boat load of them
 
greyd927 said:
Their called Panagrams.
No, a pangram uses all the letters but allows repetitions. The OP is asking for the longest sentence that has no repetitions, even if it doesn't use all the letters.
 
Without repetition i believe its still a panagram.
try Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q
looked up the words and they make sense just with an extensive vocabulary.
 
greyd927 said:
try Blowzy night-frumps vex'd Jack Q
looked up the words and they make sense just with an extensive vocabulary.

ok; any answer which is more readable and without extensive vocabulary? :)
 
not in english that i know of
I believe this is because common words in every day english became common because of their simmiliar sounds
Since these sounds are created by letters (untechnically) this means they are created by common, A.K.A. Repeating, letters
 
The glib czar junks my VW Fox PDQ.
 

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