What do you call it when a sentence contains every letter of the alphabet?
If you’ve ever had to type “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” you’ve already encountered a pangram. Pangrams are sentences that contain every letter in the alphabet. To create a true pangram, each letter is used only once; however, most true pangrams contain so many abbreviations that they become difficult to read. And just listing words doesn’t count; a pangram must be a full sentence that makes grammatical sense. Pangrams can exist in any language, but their length varies by the language’s characters: For example, while an English pangram must include 26 letters, a Russian pangram needs 33, and Khmer, a language spoken in Cambodia, requires use of only 12 characters. Pangrams can be fun to create, but they also have practical applications in testing keyboards and fonts.
Speaking of typewriters: Typewriters have made a comeback within the past few years. People still enjoy using them and collecting them, and some even enjoy cleaning and repairing them to keep them typing (like us!)
If you think that you’re the only one crazy enough to want to buy a typewriter, you are most definitely wrong.
On my personal quests to find typewriters, I have lost track of how many times I have asked an antique store owner or someone running a garage sale, “Do you have any typewriters for sale?” and they think for a second before informing me that they did a little while ago, but it sold. As a buyer, you have competition. There’s also evidence of this online. You can see some extreme bidding wars on eBay over typewriters. That good “Buy it Now” deal you saw newly listed a few minutes ago may be gone the next few minutes if you don’t decide in time. Before this site was setup so you could purchase directly off of the website, I used to have multiple people ready to pay for the same machine, but I had to deliver the tragic news that the typewriter was already sold. So in the end, If you see a good deal, you’d better snag it before someone else does.
If you think that you’re the only one crazy enough to want to buy a typewriter, you are most definitely wrong.
On my personal quests to find typewriters, I have lost track of how many times I have asked an antique store owner or someone running a garage sale, “Do you have any typewriters for sale?” and they think for a second before informing me that they did a little while ago, but it sold. As a buyer, you have competition. There’s also evidence of this online. You can see some extreme bidding wars on eBay over typewriters. That good “Buy it Now” deal you saw newly listed a few minutes ago may be gone the next few minutes if you don’t decide in time. Before this site was setup so you could purchase directly off of the website, I used to have multiple people ready to pay for the same machine, but I had to deliver the tragic news that the typewriter was already sold. So in the end, If you see a good deal, you’d better snag it before someone else does.
QWERTY (/ˈkwɜːrti/) is a keyboard design for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard ( Q W E R T Y ). The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to E. Remington and Sons in 1873.
Why QWERY? The reason dates back to the time of manual typewriters. When first invented , they had keys arranged in an alphabetical order, but people typed so fast that the mechanical character arms got tangled up. So the keys were randomly positioned to actually slow down typing and prevent key jams.
The QWERTY layout is based on the keyboard design for the original typewriter. So the story goes that he (Christopher Sholes) arranged the keys with the most common letters in hard to reach spots, to slow typists down and try to avoid this problem.
I once knew how to type. I learned during the summer before my freshman year of high school. I am hardly the typist I was then. Then again, I am hardly anything I was then!!! 
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