This article is from the Puzzles FAQ, by Chris Cole chris@questrel.questrel.com and Matthew Daly mwdaly@pobox.com with numerous contributions by others.
Construct the longest coherent sentence you can such that the nth word
is n letters long.
language/english/sentences/snowball.s
I
do
not
know
where
family
doctors
acquired
illegibly
perplexing
handwriting;
nevertheless,
extraordinary
pharmaceutical
intellectuality,
counterbalancing
indecipherability,
transcendentalizes
intercommunications'
incomprehensibleness.
If you add the condition that the letters in each word must be in
inverse alphabetic order, you have:
A
zo
fed
upon
solid
toffee
zyxomma.
 
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