05-11-19 21:06 NANCY BACKUS wrote to MARK LEWIS about Re: sentence  was: SSN
Howdy! Nancy, Mark and ALL,

 NB> {at}MSGID: 
 -=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Nancy Backus on 05-09-19  00:14 <=-

 DS>> I remember "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of
 DS>> their country", and "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
 DS>> dog"...the latter, because it has every letter in the alphabet at
 DS>> least once.
 NB>> Except that there is no "S" in the sentence as you
remember it...
 NB>> Ed's way with "dogs back" added the S to the
sentence....  Perhaps
 NB>> the original was simply "over the lazy dogs"...  ;)

 ML> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the current proper
 ML> phrase... it used to start with "A" instead of
"The" but there was only
 ML> three years between the two forms...

 NB> RIGHT!!  Now I remember... And yes, I originally learned it starting
 NB> with "A" instead of "The".... :)

It was in January 1960 when the Navy Radiomans Class started teaching Me
how to Type while Listening to Morse Code over a Pair of Headphones.

So I probably learned about typing the "NOW IS..." and "THE
QUICK..."
Sentences during that period.

"THE QUICK..." is the way I recall doing it.

I Didn't know about the "A QUICK..." version until reading about it today.

In Navy Radiomans School the Typewriters printed Capital Letters whichever
way the Shift Key was ...  Up   or  Down     ALL CAPITALS,  No lower case.

That's why I typed (between the Quote Marks) in Upper Case above.

73 de Ed W9ODR     . .


... So easy, a child could do it. Child sold separately.
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