A lipogram (from Ancient Greek: λειπογράμματος, leipográmmatos, "leaving out a letter" is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing...
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Gadsby (novel) (category Lipograms)
English. A work that deliberately avoids certain letters is known as a lipogram. The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which...
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of Life: A User's Manual. As well as established techniques, such as lipograms (Perec's novel A Void) and palindromes, the group devises new methods...
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consecutive letters that are shared on a phone keyboard is nonmonotonic. Lipogram List of long species names List of the longest English words with one syllable...
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pangram samples. Panalphabetic window Pangrammatic window Pangrammatic lipogram Pandigital number, the same idea for integers in a given base Heterogram...
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is specifically applied to. For example: Lipogram: a letter (commonly e or o) is outlawed. Reverse-lipograms: each word must contain a particular letter...
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Arabic letter frequency English word frequency Letter frequency effect Lipogram RSTLNE (Wheel of Fortune) American Morse code was developed in the 1830s...
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written that omit the letter e altogether — a form of literature known as a lipogram. The first known recorded explanation of frequency analysis (indeed, of...
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sensitivity Infinite monkey theorem Lexical analysis Lexeme Lexicography Lexicon Lipogram The Library of Babel Palindrome Pangram Sequence alignment Atbash cipher...
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approached the Evening Independent newspaper and proposed it sponsor a blue lipogram writing competition, with $250 for the winner. In the letter, he boasted...
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and data compression. This makes it a harder letter to use when writing lipograms. In the hexadecimal (base 16) numbering system, "E" corresponds to the...
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his constrained writing. His 300-page novel La disparition (1969) is a lipogram, written with natural sentence structure and correct grammar, but using...
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Ernest Vincent Wright, author of the 1939 novel Gadsby, written entirely in lipogram, was unable to find a publisher for his work and ultimately chose to publish...
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a board game Ananym Blanagram Constrained writing Isogram Letter bank Lipogram List of geographic anagrams and ananyms List of taxa named by anagrams...
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love and freedom. The Wonderful O uses a form of constrained writing or lipogram where the letter O is omitted at the demands of the villains.[clarification...
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Ella Minnow Pea (category Lipograms)
Ella Minnow Pea is a 2001 novel by Mark Dunn. The full title of the hardcover version is Ella Minnow Pea: a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable...
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"Autoportrait with Constraint" – a short autobiography in the form of a lipogram GitHub repo of sourcecode & literature of Hofstadter's students work Douglas...
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engram, epigram, epigrammatic, grammar, grammatic, grammaticist, hologram, lipogram, monogram, pangrammatic, pentagram, program, programmatic, telegram, telegramme...
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Univocalic (category Lipograms)
ob). Höpöhöpö Böks by Icelandic poet Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl is a univocal lipogram using only the vowel Ö. It is composed as a tribute to Christian Bök's...
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which the names of the letters or numerals are used to represent the word Lipogram: a writing in which certain letter is missing Univocalic: a type of poetry...
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A Void (category Lipograms)
A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a 300-page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges...
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in 2004. The writing is restricted by a pseudo-alliterative rule of the lipogram type: the first chapter contains only words starting with the letter a...
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homographs in Greek: ‘fat’ (λίπος) lipoprotein vs. 'lacking' (λίπο- < λείπειν) lipogram. Similarly, -carp- (καρπός) can mean 'wrist' carpal (tunnel) vs. 'fruit'...
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Lebdeğmez (category Lipograms)
accompanied by a Saz (played by the ashik himself), consists only of labial lipograms i.e. without words where lips must touch each other, effectively excluding...
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Eunoia (book) (category Lipograms)
Eunoia (2001) is an anthology of univocalics by Canadian poet Christian Bök. Each chapter is written using words limited to consonants and a single vowel...
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book that took him seven years to finish. Eunoia consists of univocalic lipograms. The book uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters. In the book's...
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also mirrors its central concern with missing elements. The book is a lipogram in twenty-six chapters leaving out, in each chapter, one letter of the...
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engram, epigram, epigrammatic, grammar, grammatic, grammaticist, hologram, lipogram, monogram, pangrammatic, pentagram, program, programmatic, telegram, telegramme...
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This includes research into and demonstrations of anagrams, pangrams, lipograms, tautonyms, univocalics, word ladders, palindromes and unusually long...
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enriches the theory of tiles [cover] 1977 Feb The flip-strip sonnet, the lipogram and other mad modes of wordplay 1977 Mar Cornering a queen leads unexpectedly...
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