Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> 2007/2/1, Sai Emrys <sai@...>:
>
>> "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" is used to test
>> typewriters because it contains all the letters of English.
>>
>> What are equivalent spoken phrases, i.e. that contain all (English)
>> phonemes (or phones, if you feel particularly ambitious)?
>
>
> That would heavily depend on accents, right? This is definitely inviting
> YAEPT.
I'm afraid it is. It will be obvious from the almost innumerable YAEPTs
that there is unlikely to be agreement over just what are all the
English phonemes. As for phones ........
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