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Czech has less monosyllabic words than English but these words were sufficient enough for the famous Czech actor Jan Werich to write a story entitled

Chlap, děd, vnuk, pes a hrob

in his Fimfárum. The story is exclusively composed of monosyllabic words. The first few sentences are presented below:

Žil kdys kdes chlap.
Dá se říct též muž či kmán, jak kdo chce. Já ho zvu chlap.
Nu a on krad, ten chlap. Krad, co moh a kde moh. Zvlášť, když měl hlad.
Byl den jak květ, pták pěl, klas zrál, a nad vším jas.
Jen hvozd se tměl, tam, kde spal chlap.
...

Renata Blatná, Vladimír Petkevič, ©2001

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