Blogger Poe adores self-reference (who doesn't?!) but
wonders: if a text that uses every letter of the alphabet
is called a pangram and if a pangram that uses every
letter except one is called a pangrammatic lipogram,
then what is a pangrammatic lipogram that uses every
letter except two called?*
The Walrus and the Lipogram,
In
DXV** BC,
Were quick to end their self-ref wend.
Goes Wal, “Don't ya’ll agree
We must disperse...?” (He’d suss'd: his verse
Contain'd no J or Z.***)
* Names suggested thus far include 'pangrammatic
bi-pogram,' 'pangrammatic di-pogram' and 'pangrammatic
twi-pogram.' PlaysWell has yet to indicate a preference.
** Read as either "five fifteen" or "dee-ex-vee."
PlaysWell is pleased and proud to recommend either
and/or both.
*** Strictly speaking, of course, the verse does contain
both letters, since the last line, in which they appear,
is a part of the verse. Self-reference can prove slippery.
