Lipograms
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Name (Latin)
Lipograms
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Creative writing
Word games
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Q836165
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sh2009000759
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Adams, A. Unhooking a DD-cup bra without fumbling, c2008:cover ("an E short of a Ouija board--this book contains no E's at all!")
- Answers.com Web site, Jan. 28, 2009(lipogram: A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on)
- TheFreeDictionary Web site, Jan. 28, 2009(lipogram: a piece of writing in which all words containing a particular letter have been deliberately omitted; a text that excludes a particular letter or particular letters of the alphabet)
- Wikipedia, Jan. 28, 2009(A lipogram (from Greek lipagrammatos, "missing letter") is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is missing, usually a common vowel, the most common in English being e)
- How to write a lipogram, via WWW, Jan. 28, 2008(A lipogram is a constrained piece of writing that omits a letter--usually a vowel--or group of letters from the entire text. Writing a lipogram is not only a logical challenge but also forces a writer to dig to the root of a word's meaning in order to substitute it with one that fits the rule of the lipogram)