or the animal, or several combinations of the city and the animal.

But definitely not a sentence.

Well, I'm certainly no expert, but Internet Lore has it that any number of 'Buffalo' forms a valid sentence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo...

(I think) if one capitalises every word, then they all have to be taken as proper nouns, rather than a mix of adjectives, nouns and verbs (as depicted in the tree diagram on the wiki page). At that point you're just failing to count properly ;)

You are quite right - I remembered there were eight words, but did not think through the capitalisation.

Odd that I have -4 points on it - it seemed vaguely connected to the rest of the thread.

Unless it's title case as it would be in a newspaper headline. The lack of any punctuation proves this to be the case.

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Of course - I missed that in the GP.

Exactly.

Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_h...