LIPOGRAMS! (lipo-whats??)Can you write the words to "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star?"
SURE, THAT'S EEEAASY!!How 'bout this: Can you write the song using real words, but without using the letter "T"?
I DON'T KNOW...LET ME TRY...Shimmer, Shimmer Small Sun
How I wonder ...
OKAY, I'M STUCK...Gyles Brandreth, a lipogrammarian rewrote Shakespeare's Hamlet without "I," Twelfth Night without the letters "L" and "O," Othello without the letter "O" and Macbeth without "A" or "E."
WHY, WAS HE BORED?No, he just liked being clever with words. Here are examples of how it is done using nursery rhymes.
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" without 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 her went with her, Illegal, and quite rare; It made the children laugh and play To view a lamb in there. --A. Ross Eckler
Twinkle Twinkle Little star without "T"
Glimmer, Glimmer Darling Sun, Missing you we'd have no fun. Up in a big sky, all alone Keeping our world safe at home Shimmer, Shimmer loved much Sun If you were gone we'd have no fun. --Linda, age 10 I WANT TO TRY ANOTHER!GREAT!
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