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<p>[Ovid]'s comment above on "Writing without the letter E" made me think of [http://www.google.com/search?q=oulipo|the Oulipo], a French group that does lots of word and language play. One of the games is a "snowball sentence", in which each word is one letter longer than the last. This one, which goes all the way to 20, is by Dmitri Borgmann, in <i>Language on Vacation</i>.
<code>my @snowball = qw(
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly
perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary
pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing
indecipherability, transcendentalizes
intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.
);
s/\W// foreach @snowball; # punctuation doesn't count ;-)
my @answer = map { length } @snowball;
</code></p>
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