"This site uses session cookies. These cookies do not record any personal information. Accept and close this notice More information on our use of Plain English Campaign Skip to contentJump main navigation loginJump additional informationNav view searchNavigationHomeAbout usCampaigningServicesContact usSearch Search You are here: Home Campaigning Examples Long sentences Pensions jargon Legal Health medical Government European gobbledygook Before after Clichés Job titles Financial Management speak Search... should always try avoid long sentences. Below two examples as well some facts about in general. In 2005 Halton Borough Council put up a tell the public its plans move path from one place another. Quite astonishingly was 630 word sentence which picked Golden Bull awards that year. Here is it full. words 'A point approximately 330 metres east most south westerly corner 17 Batherton Close Widnes 208 east-south-east southerly Unit 3 Foundry Industrial Estate Victoria Street Widnes proceeding generally east-north-easterly direction for 28 202 south-easterly 4 347 then northerly 21 210 5 north-easterly east-north-east 64 282 easterly 2 259 350 west-north-west north boundary fence scrap metal yard side Cornubia Road 47 west-south-west stub end Road be diverted metre wide 183 Street 272 26 Ann West 58 216 221 45 265 102 366 463 22 north-north-easterly 19 368 512 east-south 16 420 533 240 606 23 fencing northern 44 Road.’ The sentence below found legal contract until recently longest we had seen an official document. 516 'In event Purchaser defaults payment instalment purchase price taxes insurance interest or annual charge described elsewhere herein shall default performance other obligations set forth Contract Seller may: at his option: (a) Declare immediately due payable entire unpaid balance with accrued charge demand full thereof enforce conveyance land by termination contract according terms hereof case also liable reasonable attorney's fees services rendered attorney behalf Seller (b) sell said premises part thereof auction such manner time place upon conditions may deem best interest all concerned consisting advertisement newspaper general circulation county city security property located least once week Three (3) successive weeks period applicable law require and purchaser re-sell postponement sale resale determine compliance sale judicial approval required law convey fee simple cost Purchaser who see application money proceeds sale: First pay proper costs charges including but limited court costs advertising expenses auctioneer's allowance if correct irregularity title premium Seller's bond auditor's fee expenses occurred protection execution moneys advanced assessments thereon provided taxes retain compensation commission five percent (5%) amount sales SECOND whole remaining principal date payment whether same not being understood agreed before maturity payable THIRD liens against their priority lien extent funds hands available LAST remainder proceeds any vendor heirs personals representatives successors assigns delivery surrender vendee possession premises less excess obtaining possession.' Some Jonathan Coe's novel 'The Rotters' Club' contains 13955 words. This considered literature. One Molly Bloom's soliloquies James Joyce's epic novel 'Ulysses' features 4491 Guinness Book Records lists William Faulkner's 'Absalom Absalom!' (1287 words). ancient languages Sanskrit Greek did have punctuation. So were long! A Polish 'Bramy Raju' 40000-word sentence. There Czech Bohumil Hrabal called 'Dancing Lessons Advanced Age' A-Z alternative Choose word: (an) absence Show plain tools Free guides Drivel Defence Gobbledygook generator Football Follow us FacebookFollow TwitterView Campaign's profile LinkedIn Powered Joomla!® Copyright © 2024 Campaign. All Righ""This Righ" 1