Harvard sentences
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[Iridium...SNIP...]
"The hog crawled under the high fence. Move the var over the hot
fire."
[snip]
After some investigation, it turns out these are called
'harvard sentences' and are designed to be phonetically
balanced and used in testing of telcom systems.
Ah that makes complete sense now. - Alas, not 007.
When talking about this on sdf's #gopher channel, cat
(from baud.baby) shared a phone number that gives an
endless stream of these: (858) 651-5050
Next time you find yourself in need for some
phonetically balanced goodness, you can give that one
a ring!
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