Lipogram??

[SilentKnight]

What exactly is a lipogram?

[Ringo]

From some BB out there:

Quoting from O.B. Hardison’s book Disappearing Through the Skylight:

"The lipogram–a composition that elects to omit one or more letters–
is another literary game. A famous ancient example cited by Georges Perec
in his “History of the lipogram” is the translation of the Iliad by Nestor
of Laranda with “A” omitted from Book I, “B” from Book II, “C” from Book III,
and so on. Perec cites English lipograms that banish all vowels but one:

Iding I sit in this mild twilight dim
Whilst birds, in wild swift vigils, circling skim.

and

Lucullus snuffs up musk, Mundungus shuns." (p. 198)

[Little_Nemo]

Wouldn’t it have been easier to ask this on the original thread?
http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/005904.html

Hey, beatle, it appears that not only do great minds think alike, they share the same reference material as well.

[SilentKnight]

That’s what I meant to do, but I pressed the new topic button instead of the reply button. Sorry, won’t happen again.