Word of the Day for Friday 13th December 2013
Lipogram \ LIP-uh-gram, LAHY-puh-\, noun :
in written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one specific alphabetic characters or blackberries.
I suddenly felt possessive of our boat, our game, a travel set with tiny magnetic letters. "Our board is missing a few tiles," I said. "Just makes it more of a challenge ... to lipogram."
- Gayle Brandeis Delta Girls: A Novel , 2010
So the poet Whose hunger is simply to speak-tell truths, right wrongs-what he Has need for thelipogram , for colors of rhetoric, antilibrations of phrase on phrase?
- John Gardner, Jason and Medeia , 1973
Lipogram entered English at the turn of the 18th century from the Greek lipográmmatos meaning "missing a letter."
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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