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This Book Is the Longest Sentence Ever Written and Then Published (2020), by humor writer Dave Cowen, consists of one sentence that runs for 111,111 words, and is a stream of consciousness memoir [9] [10] [11]
In an article titled "Current Notes" in the February 9, 1885, edition, the phrase is mentioned as a good practice sentence for writing students: "A favorite copy set by writing teachers for their pupils is the following, because it contains every letter of the alphabet: 'A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ' " [1] Dozens of other ...
An English language pangram being used to demonstrate the Bitstream Vera Sans typeface. The best-known English pangram is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". [1]It has been used since at least the late 19th century [1] and was used by Western Union to test Telex/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability. [2]
The Mini Crossword Plays: 2.1 billion. Strands Plays: 1.3 billion. ... The longest pangram was Nationalization on Jan. 8, and there were 535 pangrams this year. Forty-six solvers found every ...
Times style is to always capitalize the first letter of a clue, regardless of whether the clue is a complete sentence or whether the first word is a proper noun. On occasion, this is used to deliberately create difficulties for the solver; e.g., in the clue [John, for one], it is ambiguous whether the clue is referring to the proper name John ...
Here are brief profiles of the men who received the longest sentences. All have 10 days to decide whether to appeal their sentences. DOMINIQUE PELICOT, 72, married Gisele in 1973.
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.
Of course, there can be no proof that English sentences can or cannot be infinitely long, only differences in opinion as to (eg) whether recursive generative grammar type rules actually produce the sentences of English (and only the sentences of English). One could argue that "Who polices the {police * 10000000}" is a sentence on the basis of ...