A sentence that uses each of the
letters in its language is called a
pangram.
In English, there are
26 letters. A 26-letter pangram using words listed in
the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is:
Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz.
Its interpretation is roughly "
Glyphs on the bank of the
fjord leading into the
mountain valley (some say
cirque, see
cwm) puzzled the
eccentric."
vext is a rare but acceptable alternate form of
vexed. Definition #2 of
quiz is being used.
This is from a late 1970's issue of Games and Puzzles magazine. It also gave a few other less memorable solutions, possibly including the other 26-letter English pangrams on
E2,
Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks and
Vext cwm fly zing jabs Kurd qoph. The fact that so many
optimal pangrams exist in
English results mainly from its highly complex and flexible
grammar, and the borrowing of so many words from other languages.