Editing Lipogram (section)

==Pangrammatic lipogram==
A ''pangrammatic lipogram'' or ''lipogrammatic [[pangram]]'' uses every letter of the alphabet except one. An example omitting the letter ''E'' is:<ref>Susan Elkin,''Lipograms: The Presence of Absence'', p. 15.</ref>

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A jovial swain should not complain
Of any buxom fair
Who mocks his pain and thinks it gain
To quiz his awkward air.
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A longer example is "Fate of Nassan", an anonymous poem dating from pre-1870, where each stanza is a lipogrammatic pangram using every letter of the alphabet except ''E''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://archive.org/details/gleaningsforcuri00bomb |title=Gleanings for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature : Bombaugh, Charles C. (Charles Carroll), 1828–1906 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive |first=Charles C. |last=Bombaugh |work=archive.org |year=2013 |access-date=4 August 2013}}</ref>

{{poemquote|
Bold Nassan quits his caravan,
A hazy mountain grot to scan;
Climbs jaggy rocks to find his way,
Doth tax his sight, but far doth stray.

Not work of man, nor sport of child
Finds Nassan on this mazy wild;
Lax grow his joints, limbs toil in vain—
Poor wight! why didst thou quit that plain?

Vainly for succour Nassan calls;
Know, Zillah, that thy Nassan falls;
But prowling wolf and fox may joy
To quarry on thy Arab boy.
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Two other pangrammatic lipograms omitting only the letter ''E'' are:

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|text=Now focus your mind vigorously on this paragraph and on all its words. What’s so unusual about it? Don’t just zip through it quickly. Go through it slowly. Tax your brain as much as you can.
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|text=This is an unusual paragraph. It looks so ordinary and common. You would think that nothing is wrong with it, and, in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Can you find it? Just a quick think should do it. It is not taxing. You should find out without any hints. All that you must know to form your solution is right in front of you. I know if you work at it a bit, it will dawn on you. It’s so amazing and so obvious though you can still miss it.
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The KJV Bible unintentionally contains two lipogrammatic pangrams: Ezra 7:21 lacks only ''J'', and 1 Chronicles 12:40 lacks only ''Q''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brandreth |first=Gyles |title=The Joy of Lex |year=1980 |isbn=0-688-03709-7 |pages=237–238|publisher=Morrow }}</ref>