A lipogram is a kind of constrained writing or word game of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is omitted — usually a common vowel, the most common in English being “E”.
Writing a lipogram is a trivial task for uncommon letters like “z”, “j”, or “x”, but it is much more difficult for common letters like “e”, “t”, or “a”. Writing this way, the author must omit many ordinary words. Grammatically correct and smooth-flowing lipograms are fairly rare and difficult to write.
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