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  2. Longest English sentence - Wikipedia

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    There have been several claims for the 'longest sentence in the English language' revolving around the longest printed sentence. Sentences can be made arbitrarily long in various ways. One method is successive iterations, such as "Someone thinks that someone thinks that someone thinks that nobody thinks that...," [ 1 ] while another method is ...

  3. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.

  4. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest single palindromic word in English is rotavator, another name for a rotary tiller for breaking and aerating soil. Typed words The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades , aftercataracts , dereverberated , dereverberates [ 33 ] and the more common but ...

  5. The Rotters' Club (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book contains one of the longest sentences in English literature, with 13,955 words. The Rotters' Club was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel that consisted of one great sentence. [4]

  6. 20 Longest Words in English and Their Meanings (Plus ... - AOL

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    The longest English words are often rooted in specialized fields, like medicine and literature. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. From technical to whimsical, prepare for your ...

  7. What Is the Longest Word in English? Hint: It’s 189,819 ...

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    I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.

  8. List of longest prison sentences - Wikipedia

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    It is the longest, non-life, officially confirmed sentence ever handed in the European Union. Jamal Zougam: 42,922 years Emilio Suárez Trashorras 34,715 years Charles Scott Robinson 1994 30,000 years United States: Longest jail term to a single American on multiple counts. Also the longest sentence ever handed in the United States.

  9. Here are the 5 longest Jan. 6 sentences so far - AOL

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    The Justice Department (DOJ) announced earlier this month that approximately 597 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences for their activity Jan. 6. About 366 ...