Word of the Day – Lipogram

Lipogram (n)

lip-uh-gram

The omission of a specific character in written texts.

A written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters..

Example

Below is a lipogram of Mary had a little lamb, omitting the letter S:

“Mary had a little lamb
With fleece a pale white hue
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb kept her in view

To academe he went with her,
Illegal, and quite rare;
It made the children laugh and play
To view the lamb in there”