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- noun Plural form of
lipogram .
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Examples
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With unusual letters, lipograms are easy – but with something like ‘e’, the most common letter in the English language, it is incredibly difficult.
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Speaking of Oulipian techniques, our own Christian Bök has a good book of lipograms, poems (in this case a book-length prose poems) arranged to leave out particular letters (in this case, vowels).
anagrams in america : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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As works of literature that avoid certain letters have come up in robyn_ma and murnkay's journals recently, I present to you this page of lipograms and liponyms.
Wednesday notes yendi 2006
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The British short-story writer, 41, cites Italo Calvino and Raymond Queneau as his influences, discusses literature, lipograms and Iberia - and why the boy from Wales only publishes in certain languages
cafebabel.com 2009
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The British short-story writer, 41, cites Italo Calvino and Raymond Queneau as his influences, discusses literature, lipograms and Iberia - and why the boy from Wales only publishes in certain languages
cafebabel.com 2009
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The British short-story writer, 41, cites Italo Calvino and Raymond Queneau as his influences, discusses literature, lipograms and Iberia - and why the boy from Wales only publishes in certain languages
cafebabel.com 2009
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The British short-story writer, 41, cites Italo Calvino and Raymond Queneau as his influences, discusses literature, lipograms and Iberia - and why the boy from Wales only publishes in certain languages
cafebabel.com 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word lipograms
JM knows that writing lipograms is, as you might think, a difficult task
February 1, 2009