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Monday April 19th 2010, 5:04 pm
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As the Language Logger looks for things to do in Boston, I am working away in Berlin.  He suggested a news headline noun pile length contest – which I interpret as longest sequence of nouns, not longest string.  Dear readers, let’s see what you can do with the challenge.  What’s your longest plausible news headline noun pile example?




6 nouns:

Slough sausage choke baby death woman jailed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/10241928.stm

Comment by Fenambulist 06.04.10 @ 3:16 pm





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