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Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann, a finalist for the 2019 Booker Prize, runs more than a thousand pages, mostly consisting of a single sentence that is 426,100 words long [8] 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 ...
The 1983 Guinness Book of World Records says the "Longest Sentence in Literature" is a sentence from Absalom, Absalom! containing 1,288 words (the record has since been broken). [9] The sentence can be found in Chapter 6; it begins with the words "Just exactly like Father", and ends with "the eye could not see from any point".
The longest word in that dictionary is electroencephalographically (27 letters). [13] The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless"; its usage has been recorded as ...
Also the longest, non-life, officially confirmed sentence ever handed in the world. She defrauded more than 16,000 Thais in a pyramid scheme worth $204 million at the time. [ 8 ] However, the Thai law of the time specified that those convicted of fraud could not serve more than twenty years in prison and her mandatory release was 2009, she was ...
The longest non-coined, non-technical word published in multiple dictionaries is 28 letters long: Antidisestablishmentarianism. (Yep, ...
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.
Donald Trump could receive a non-incarceratory sentence -- or his sentencing could be delayed until he leaves office -- in lieu of his criminal hush money conviction being dismissed entirely ...
Close to 1,100 people have been arrested in connection with the attack on the Capitol, and more than 300 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration.