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World's Longest Sentence

World's Longest Sentence

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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, appearing to hold the record for longest sentence. [Wiki]


Let's beat this world record together.

One word added per post.

Copy paste the sentence as it stands including the word that you are adding.

We can do it.

Let's believe in ourselves.

Edit: subsequent posters can alter previously suggested punctuation

Edit: extra kudos for never repeating nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. Don't worry, the English language has 1,000,000+ words

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The

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The ancient

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The ancient history

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We are 0.0007040601% of the way there!

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The ancient history of

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The ancient history of the

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@fmf said
The ancient history of the
426,096 words to go.

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The ancient history of the often

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Here's a thought, there is no reason to add your word to the end e.g

The incompetent officials

becomes

The often incompetent officials

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This is my thread. I am very strongly in charge. I am in beautiful control. And, to that end, I have absolute authority. Which is as it should be. My power and authority are total. Everyone knows it. If posters do something different from what I have ordered, then it will only be OK because I will have authorized whatever it is that they will have done.

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@petewxyz said
The ancient history of the often
The ancient history of the often underestimated

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
The ancient history of the often underestimated
The ancient history of the often underestimated Hindu

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@wolfe63 said
The ancient history of the often underestimated Hindu
The ancient history of the often underestimated Hindu god


as an aside I note we may only be able to get in around 10,000 characters so our objective will, likely, be unattainable? 🤔

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
The ancient history of the often underestimated
I don't want no stories about me!!! 😛 😉

-VR