Ovid's comment above on "Writing without the letter E" made me think of the Oulipo, a French group that does lots of word and language play. One of the games is a "snowball sentence", in which each word is one letter longer than the last. This one, which goes all the way to 20, is by Dmitri Borgmann, in Language on Vacation.

my @snowball = qw(
    I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly 
    perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary
    pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing 
    indecipherability, transcendentalizes
    intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.
);
s/\W// foreach @snowball;  # punctuation doesn't count ;-)
my @answer = map { length } @snowball;
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