Thursday, December 03, 2009

Most Consecutive Words

Was musing, following the management bingo game yesterday, and recalled a couple of examples from English lessons of sentences with the same word in a row as many times as possible but still making sense. Not counting lists, of course.

There was a guy putting up a sign for a fish and chips shop. The owner complained it was too tightly spaced. The signwriter hadn't left enough room between 'fish' and 'and' and 'and' and chips.

Another one tomorrow.

3 comments:

Dave Gordon said...

If you'd written it in the first person would it be necessary to place quotation marks before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Mike Peatman said...

The version that I knew had blackberry and apple on a jam jar label. Still works.

Marcella said...

A linguistics professor of mine once spent an entire lecture on "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo". It only makes sense when you know that Buffalo is an area in New York, and that 'buffalo' is a US verb for 'bash into'... That "sentence" represents an hour of my life that I'm never getting back...