Daily Prompt: Twenty-Five
There are 26 letters in the English language, and we need every single one of them. Want proof? Choose a letter and write a blog post without using it. (Feeling really brave? Make it a vowel!)
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Today we are invited to write a lipogram: a kind of limited writing or word game involving writing a paragraph or longer work avoiding a particular letter or letter group — normally a common vowel, and frequently “E”, an extremely common letter in our native language.
Writing a lipogram may be a trivial effort for an uncommon letter like “Z”, “J”, “Q”, or “X”, but can be much more difficult for a more common character like “E”, “T” or “A”. In writing a lipogram, the author may have to omit many an ordinary word or term. A grammatically meaningful and well-flowing lipogram can be difficult to create.
More challenging yet – a pangrammatic lipogram or lipogrammatic pangram: a text that will employ every letter of the alphabet except one, e.g. “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, a pangrammatic lipogram which left out one character that failed to appear anywhere here today.
EV Wright wrote a 50,000 word lipogrammatic novel, containing not one “e”, the title of which may not appear here today. Imagine that – what an effort! My wee attempt today took quite enough doing.
Credit to Wikipedia for helping out today
