All phonemes

Is there a sentence/paragraph that contains all the English phonemes?

A trivial fact I read recently ... what is significant about the numbers 23, 23?

I recently came across the International Phonetic Alphabet, so that's the phonemes I'd like to hear! I'm suprised no one has constructed such a sentence, maybe because sounds aren't as easily played with as letters.

I was being cryptic, because I didn't want to give it away easily. How about Numbers 23:23?

Spoiler

On a wild guess, I OEDd 'rath', and it does indeed have an adjectival sense (a variant of 'rathe', meaning quick or eager, and marked with 'rare', 'poet.' and 'dial.' but a word nathless.) And since it is pronounced ra:<theta>, I presume the comparative would be pronounced with a <theta> (as in 'thistle' to 'rather's <edh> (as in 'this'.

mouth n./v.

'Nick Wedd' wrote

Try saying 'hither and thither' with the voiced and unvoiced 'th's reversed.

The way you phrased that, makes me think you pronounce it with a mixture - I pronounce them all voiced.

Nick Wedd performed an arpeggio on a keyboard and produced:

Either ether or thy thigh will do it.

'Patrick Hamlyn'

That's because one or the other themes like the other thumb times you thee

I've often heard things like the above said. However, because the lips are in a different position doesn't mean that it is a different sound. I can pronounce the m sound with my lips in various positions. In matter of fact, I can sustain the sound and move my lips at the same time, without changing the sound. I can do this with several fricative consonants as well, but only with a much more limited range. Doesn't the lip position argument depend on the type of consonant or vowel used?

'Art Neuendorffer' didn't really mean to write

As for me, 'wasn't me that done wrong'

like ... 'I''m tho sorry now'

I was only trying to be smart, cos I wrought out what I thought was a puzzle

From the book I'm reading, it says that Morse asked the daughter of the Patent commissioner (clever!) to suggest a message. She chose this verse, which Morse (a minister's son) immediately liked. Many people at the time were skeptical that telegraphy would actually work, and the DC newspaper humorously opined that Congress should also fund mesmerism research.