lipogram

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He didn't get the point of it and maybe the only thing worse was a lipogram.

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  1. A writing from which all words containing a particular letter are omitted, as the several books of the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus, in the first of which, it is said, there was no A, in the second no B, etc. Similarly, poems have been written in English avoiding the use of e, which is the most frequent of all English letters, while, on the other hand, pieces also have been written containing only one vowel, as e.

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  • He didn't get the point of it and maybe the only thing worse was a lipogram. —  Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
  • What you've just read is a lipogram - a text written without using a particular letter of the alphabet. —  Top Headlines
  • It's the hardest kind of lipogram, as it doesn't contain the letter E - the most common letter in the English language. —  Top Headlines
  • The days of Perec and the experimental coterie Oulipo may seem distant, but Christian Bök has revived their spirit in his 'univocal lipogram' —  Coach House Books -
 

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  1. from Greek λείπειν, λιπεῑν, leave, be lacking, + γράμμα, a letter, from γράφειν, write. Cf. lipogrammatic.
 

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