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week's theme: words about words. lipogram (LIP-uh-gram) noun A
piece of writing that avoids one or more letters of the
alphabet. [From Greek lipo- (lacking) + gram (something
written).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. In spite of what it
sounds like, a lipogram is not a message with a kiss. Lipogram
is a work written with a constraint. Imagine you've just started
your great epic novel and one of the keys on your keyboard is
broken. It would be trivial to manage without a Q, X, or Z, but
writing without a single E -- ah, that'd be some challenge. If
it sounds undoable, consider that whole books have been written
without an E, the most used letter in the English language.
Without an E, one has to give up some of the most common
pronouns such as he, she, we, me, and so on. What's more, even
the article "the" is barred. Coming back to books written
without Es (I'm sure writing them is not something everyone can
do with ease), Ernest Vincent Wright's