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I was curious if the words could be used to form any sentences -- here's the corpus organized by part-of-speech. (Many words are missing due to gaps in the corpus I used):

NOUN 147 slob, Ellie, silo, bile, sell, Gil, belles, highs, Bessie, losses, giggles, Liz, hobo, Leslie, Bob, lies, bellies, soil, Hess, hells, Isis, Gog, Hiss, boogie, holes, bliss, oils, gel, leg, lobes, globes, Gill, Leigh, geese, bogies, bilge, Lizzie, Leo, boil, legs, shoe, shells, Ozzie, giggle, ooze, size, eel, high, bill, gob, hole, hog, soles, libel, Hill, bee, shills, ills, Lois, glee, Bess, lobe, gig, Beebe, sizes, Gogol, sloe, hiss, Ellis, Sol, boos, Ohio, bees, HBO, bobbles, ill, lie, sobs, booze, bibles, Gibbs, hobbies, sighs, shell, isle, bib, Hegel, hills, Zoe, Eloise, Giles, sill, Elsie, Bill, bells, loss, egg, eggshell, bills, hoses, Shiloh, siege, Bible, solos, sigh, Hillel, logs, hose, lobbies, hill, log, hob, bell, shoes, Lee, gloss, heels, Hobbes, bosses, soils, solo, Oslo, hoes, goose, oil, Bell, blob, goggles, Eli, sole, ego, silos, hogs, lilies, Billie, gibes, ell, hell, shill, globe, oblige, loose, eggs, gibe, boss, heel, Bobbie

VERB 34 sells, loses, Lie, boil, sell, ebb, lob, seize, solo, begs, see, ebbs, sizzle, beg, lie, besiege, ooze, size, goes, hole, lies, hobble, bog, obsesses, soil, boils, loose, bless, solos, sigh, gobbles, shies, lose, sees

ADJ 9 sole, loose, ill, high, less, glib, big, beige, eligible

ADV 5 loose, ill, less, high, else

PRT 4 gosh, hello, see, hell

X 3 his, Les, les

DET 1 his

PRON 2 his, she




First, I think "is" should be added to that list.

Assuming punctuation is allowed, here's my masterpiece:

Big slob Ohio Bob sees Zoe boil his sole beige goose egg, sighs. She giggles. He sees his egg sizzle, sobs.

He looses his hell bees.


This is the most perfect thing I've read in awhile well done. I salute you.


Poor Ohio Bob. Well done.


This is such a wonderful bit of creative writing.


You win! I got a kick out of your writing.


Eggless Bob obsesses, boozes. Lizzie, she sells/soles shoeses, obliges geese egg bills. "Bless!" Bob boogies; oils, gobbles? loses! Gosh, Zoe seizes - hells bells, Zoe hogs eggs! "Lies! libel!" Zoe hisses, "go, hobo!". Bob boggles.

I was wondering if there are any sentences which are also palindomes;

bob sees bob

Lee, sell Les' Eel!

Loss boss sobs. S.O.L.

...


Bill shills his goose oil else loses his Ellie


Truly a terse emotional rollercoaster on par with "baby shoes, never worn"



How did they end up out of alphabetical order? It might be worth alphabetizing and collecting singular+plural into single entries; s and es are available, so you can pluralize most nouns (or singularize most verbs). The list has some pairs but not all, for no particular reason.

I’d suggest dropping the capitalization too, it adds duplicates, and can often be used in both senses, e.g., bill, bell, hill, hiss…

Also note there are plenty of nouns here that can be used as verbs and verbs than can be used as nouns.


Hegel sells his glib goose


The sentence game would be more interesting, if you'd add in 2-letter words. be - go - he - hi - ho - is - oh - Oz - so

He loses his high ego, he sizzles, he begs. He seizes his bible.


Ellis sells his loose eggs


Claude 3.5 is not bad…

Ellie sells shells. Bob, slob hobo, sees Ellie. Bob begs Ellie, "Sell shells." Ellie giggles, "Gosh, hello!" Bob loses. Bob sobs.

Ellie sees Bill. Bill sells bibles. Ellie lies, "Bill, sell bibles else." Bill sells bibles. Ellie gobbles bibles. Bill obsesses. Ellie sighs.

Liz sees Bob. Bob boils. Liz giggles. Bob hobbles. Liz besiege Bob. Bob begs Liz, "Loose." Liz goes. Bob sees highs.

Ellie sees Liz. Ellie giggles. Liz boils. Ellie bless Liz. Liz loses. Ellie sees bliss.

Ellie, Liz, Bob solos. Ellie, Liz, Bob lies. Ellie, Liz, Bob sees bellies. Ellie, Liz, Bob sees highs. Ellie, Liz, Bob giggles.


Now a bonus round: Can anybody possibly do a long work of fiction only using calculator words? Just this post was difficult after losing just a unitary sound!


LLM can you use words only in the following list, to create the longest sentences you can that make sense and read like plausible English sentences?


I did try this, but it constantly uses words not in the provided list.


Tested. LLM response. ChatGPT at https://openai.com/chatgpt/ (whatever the default currently is)

"Great, thanks for providing the words. Here’s a paragraph and a long sentence using only the words from your list."

Paragraph:

Ellie and Gil see high hills and lush soils as they sell eggs. Bessie, Lizzie, and Billie giggle at the blissful scene, while Bob, with his big bellies, sees sole lilies by the lake. Hobbes and Zoe bless the giggles and sighs from the hill. Ellie, high on glee, sees Leslie and Ellie loose on the hill.

Long Sentence:

Ellie, Gil, and Bobbie, with their big, glib egos, hobble to the hill, see high geese and geese solos, sell blissful lilies and lilies, see his giggles and giggles, sees solos, sees shell solos, sell loose, high eggshells, sell soles, sell high heels, lose high heels, lose loose lilies, and see highs, high on high hills.

Numeric Equivalent:

Ellie (371173), Gil (617), and Bobbie (860778), with their big (618), glib (6178), egos (3760), hobble (4607713) to the hill (411), see (335) high (4614) geese (63335) and geese (63335) solos (50505), sell (7735) blissful (817557981) lilies (511173) and lilies (511173), see (335) his (517) giggles (61977619) and giggles (61977619), sees (3355) solos (50505), sees (3355) shell (53477) solos (50505), sell (7735) loose (53350), high (4614) eggshells (355435517), sell (7735) soles (50535), sell (7735) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) high (4614) heels (43735), lose (3505) loose (53350) lilies (511173), and see (335) highs (46145), high (4614) on high (4614) hills (4115).

Also, fun note: ChatGPT will go into Mr. Burns mode if you emote Simpsons...


Can you make it stick to the list? This is full of words not available, and so none of it actually works.


Eventually was able to get a reply that was a fairly close to an above suggestion.

"Ellie sells loose shoes; Bill shills big goose oil."

Took quite a bit of "you're not actually sticking to the list". Also, weird... recursion issues with chat output.




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