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A heterogram (from hetero-, meaning 'different', + -gram, meaning 'written') is a word, phrase, or sentence in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. The terms isogram and nonpattern word have also been used to mean the same thing.
An Accommodating Advertisement and an Awkward Accident, the 427-word winning entry in Tit-Bits Magazine's Christmas 1884 competition for "the longest sensible sentence, every word of which begins with the same letter". [5] Molly Bloom's soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses (1922) contains a sentence of 3,687 words [6]
English: The Literal Standard Version is a complete, formal equivalence, idiomatically-literal English translation of The Holy Bible based on the Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls in the Old Testament and the Textus Receptus and Majority Text in the New Testament.
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
In an article titled "Current Notes" in the February 9, 1885, edition, the phrase is mentioned as a good practice sentence for writing students: "A favorite copy set by writing teachers for their pupils is the following, because it contains every letter of the alphabet: 'A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ' " [1] Dozens of other ...
The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun . There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors , almost , begins , biopsy , chimps and chintz . [ 32 ]
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.
Rasm is also written continuously without spacing. In all early manuscripts, words were finished on the next line or, in many Quranic manuscripts, even on the next page. The letter hamza is the only one of the only letter of the Arabic alphabet that lacks a final, initial or medial form, only its alone or isolated form, as it is an unlinked letter.