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My favorite lippogram doesn't exist anymore. It was a version of the Iliad that lacked the Greek letter of the alphabet that numbered the chapter. In Greek, alpha also stood for the number one. Etc. Forget who wrote it, but it's lost. Along with the Aeneid that was so tiny it fit in a nutshell.
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Oh, sorry, I didn't see that at all.
I just thought it wasn't really a paragraph because the sentences didn't follow one-another (they're all one below each other like a poem) and the punctuation is completely wrong on most of the sentences.
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Back in the dear, dead days beyond recall, Sparteye started a thread in this vein, where we all had to get our ideas across without ease.
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She sure did! That would be fun to drag back up, if anyone without a creepy-crawly dial-up would do the honors of searching for it. (what's wrong with this syntax??)
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I keep having this image of a "lipogram" as just a picture of all the fatty tissue in your body! Couldn't they come up with a better name for it?
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The word exists in Greek, lipogrammatos 'wanting a letter', so it predates liposuction. The word lipos 'fat' has a short "i" anyway, whereas lipogrammatos has a long one, as it came from leipo 'to lack, want; be left behind'.
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Thanks, JH, that's just the info I was asking for!
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Adding my thanks, jheem: I have been pronouncing both with a short i, and, although I'm TLTLIU, now I know better! 
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LOL. I was talking about Greek, but now it dawns on my that liposuction can be prounounced /lajpos@kS@n/ and lipogram is /lIpowgr}m/. So the long {i], short {i} distinction holds in English, too. Thanks, nancyk.
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