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	A Loquacious Location of Lipograms
		A univocalic has a sonorant quality that a lipogram lacks, so you must look at a lipogram, but contrarily, a univocalic is both auditory and visual, and has a strong sound if said aloud.
		Univocalic writing is hard to pull off, but if it's good, its payoff is gigantic.
		Of all lipograms consisting of a singular word, that which I think is most long is 'transubstantiationalists', with 24 symbols, though "transubstantiationalistically" might surpass it, if it was (pardon my non-subjunctivity) a valid word.
	phrontistery.info /lipogram.html (1311 words)

	! Canada Wins the Oulipics 2001 !
		Eunoia is an exhaustive univocalic novel: there is one section for each of the five vowels AEIOU; in each section no other vowels may be used.
		Also, univocalic writing has great potential to be musical because the use of a single vowel limits the number of vowel sounds, making the language resonant with assonance and rhyme.
		Univocalic writing should certainly continue to be used, but I would be hesitant to write a progressively univocalic book-length work in the shadow of Eunoia.
	www.intenex.net /~william/oulipics (1991 words)

	Word Ways: A homovocalic survey.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Originally christened 'vocalic invariants' by Dmitri Borgmann in Language on Vacation (LonV), they have been called monovocalics, sometimes univocalics, in Word Ways.
		I prefer homovocalic, meaning 'same vowel', to mono- or univocalic both of which are misnomers in this context because they mean 'one vowel'.
		They should be reserved for words such as STRENGTH in which all the letters except one are consonants.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:132535575&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (187 words)

	Table of Forms—Univocalic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A univocalic poem is a particular type of lipogram: a poem excluding all but one of the vowels.
		John don't go to Kosovo (Newspoem 17 March 1999): a progressively (abecedarian) univocalic poem, in which each line is univocalic on the vowel that follows in the alphabet the vowel used in the previous line.
		Furthermore it is also a number poem, comprising two stanzas each comprising six six-word lines.
	www.spinelessbooks.com /table/forms/univocalic.html (220 words)

	Univocalic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A univocalic is a type of poem that uses only one vowel (i.e., only uses one of A, E, I, O, or U).
		One of the best-known univocalic poems was written by C.C. Bombaugh in 1890, centred on the vowel "o".
		No cool monsoons blow soft on Oxford dons, Orthodox, jog-trot, book-worm Solomons
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Univocalic (112 words)

	A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
		EUNOIA is the title of a book by Canadian poet Christian Bok which contains a series of univocalic prose poems.
		The first 20 or so poems use only the letter A, the next 20 use only E, and so on through I, O, and U. The book claims that eunoia means "beautiful thinking" and that it is shortest word using all five vowels.
		In addition CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGOS (in Roget’s Thesaurus, at "blusterer"), the title and hero of a 1734 burlesque tragedy by Henry Carey, is used for "anyone who delivers an inflated address" (Brewer's Phrase and Fable).
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/oddities/words6.html (1802 words)

	Table of Forms—Typographic Poetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Typographic poetics is poetry written following constraints specifying which or how many letters must or may not be used.
		Well known examples include the anagram, the palindrome, the lipogram, univocalic, and the pangram.
		Newer forms include 20 consonant poetry, six vowel poetry, homograms and heterograms, number poetry, the transgram, and conovowel poetry.
	www.wordwork.org /table/typographic.html (156 words)

	Lipogram: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For example the fourth chapter does not contain any of the letters A, E, I or U.
		A typical sentence from this chapter is "Profs from Oxford show frosh who do post-docs how to gloss works of Wordsworth." Lipogrammatic writing which uses only one vowel is called univocalic (univocalic: a univocalic is a type of poem that uses only one vowel (i.e., only uses one of a, e,...
		Ella Minnow Pea (Ella Minnow Pea: ella minnow pea is a progressively lipogrammatic epistleepistolary fable written...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/lipogram (661 words)

	Lipograms and Other Constraints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I strongly doubt that anyone can write a paragraph or more of half-alphabet text that would not attract the reader's suspicion, but perhaps topics can be intelligibly paraphrased.
		Univocalic prose omits all but one vowel (Y counted as well).
		Most leave the writer with too few alternatives to create smoothly-reading paraphrases.
	wordways.com /lipogram.htm (1404 words)

	village voice > books > Crystallography and Eunoia, by Christian Bök by Ed Park
		Most notably, his 2001 Eunoia, seven years in the making, became Canada's bestselling poetry book ever—an incredible feat for such explicitly experimental writing.
		No comforting fluff here; in the main portion, each chapter employs but a single vowel (e.g., "Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech"), a univocalic constraint of the sort developed by the mad scientists of the Oulipo.
		Though it may be stunt writing, it's never stunted.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0351/park.php (589 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: The Best of an Almanac of Words at Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With a small selection to read each day of the year this book allows for easy learning everyday of the year.
		Espy's creative set up of the book covers everything from Acronyms to Univocalic writing.
		Each day with a differently constructed style and purpose this book is excellent for most age levels and can be read at any pace though it is meant to last an entire year.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0877791457/customer-reviews (460 words)

	T&W-Books -Other T&W Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Due to the overwhelming success of The Dictionary of Wordplay, Dave Morice has created a teacher's guide that offers educators ingenious methods of introducing the spirit of wordplay into the classroom.
		Included in the guide are 26 poetry and prose activities based on wordplay, such as the Charade Couplets, Rhymatic Prose, and the Univocalic Poem.
		Each activity is followed by a "tip" on how best to introduce the activity and insights on how to avoid problems inherent in the form.
	www.twc.org /pubs/other.php?ID=a2998 (882 words)

	LAC creative writing :univocalics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The most famous example is George Perec's La Disparition (1969), which has been translated into English.
		With the aid of a thesaurus, construct a short univocalic or lipogram, in prose or in verse.
		LAC students : send your lipograms or univocalics to this address.
	perso.univ-lyon2.fr /~goethals/lac/lac_univocalics.html (102 words)

	TAC 26: That Quiz: those answers...
		All answers are univocalic in the key of A: Ramprakash and McManaman met at Annan, then went up Ark Law before taking a CalMac ferry across to Arran, where they visited Lamlash.
		Returning to the mainland for ice-cream in Largs, they met up with Anand and Mark Lamarr(1) at a rave in Ayr (where the former was drinking Assam(2) tea while reading a book about Capablanca and Spassky [or Tal] and the latter watched Lammtarra at the races).
		Some confusion here: CE argued (from the Guinness BoR) that Bananal in Brazil (20000km2) is the largest (odd that this is also univocalic), but we went with Majuli in the Brahmaputra, in Assam.
	bubl.ac.uk /org/tacit/TAC/tac26/thatquiz.htm (3126 words)

	MadInkBeard - Constrained Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The main work in this book (also titled "Eunoia") is divided into five sections each of which is a univocalic text (only one vowel is used).
		Each section also attempts to use every possible English word that is univocalic for the vowel in question and includes a number of events including a journal by ship, a passage on writing, and an orgy.
		This novel proscribes any use of any form of the verb "to be."
	www.madinkbeard.com /constraint/constrainedw.html (938 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		So far this year we've got univocalics for a: "nasdaq flat" e: "Left Rebel 'Red Ken' Elected" o: "Footwords to Howl, for Solomon" u: "Russ Sub Kursk Sunk; UK Sub Plumbs" We just need 'i' to make a complete set.
		To split hairs: "Y" doesn't have to be in the initial position to function as a consonant, it just has to sound like the Y in "Yoyo" or "Tokyo." AnYwaY, at least one of the extant univocalics uses "Y" excessivelY and indiscriminatelY.
		Perhaps that makes it not a univocalic but instead a lipogram on four vowels.
	lists.cu.groogroo.com /mailman/archive/newspoetry/2000-December.txt (17132 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Monkey Puzzles: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pride of place must go to the real tour-de-force at Puzzle 80.
		The preamble reads "A univocalic crossword; the solutions are like the clues".
		Pride of place must be the real tour-de-force at puzzle 80.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1843540045 (1332 words)

	Lipogram Links
		Gadsby: The complete text of Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright (1939, now copyright-expired) available to be read or downloaded online for free.
		Table of Forms: A masterful table classifying dozens of types of constrained writing (certainly not limited to lipograms and univocalics) and including an enormous bibliography of lipogrammatic works of fiction.
		Lipograms and Antilipos: An interesting twist, introducing the 'antilipo' (also sometimes known as a reverse lipogram), a work in which every word contains a particular letter.
	phrontistery.info /liplinks.html (550 words)

	A.Word.A.Day -- AWADmail Issue 11
		So Perec had no choice but to write a short work called Les Revenentes, where the only vowel used is e.
		A writing composed using only one of the vowels is called a univocalic.
		If that doesn't sound incredible enough, here is more news.
	www.wordsmith.org /awad/awadmail11.html (1828 words)

	Definition of univocalic - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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		For More Information on "univocalic " go to Britannica.com
		Get the Top 10 Search Results for "univocalic "
	www.m-w.com /dictionary/univocalic (85 words)

	Vademe.cum - Mail Books
		(Author's Note: Any reader misunderstanding univocalic composition should ponder those very expressions our author's note contains, since they feature nothing any subsequent passage could include.)
		Nacarat alpaga slacks, a tarlatan that has flaps, a Franz Hals armband, an Astrakhan hat that has Cranach tags, fl spats, fl sandals, a grand strass star and an Afghan raglan that has falbalas all clad Andras MacAdam.
		We embraced for a moment then I knew that, even though time remained between us, not even time could undo our love for each other.
	www.partal.com /vademecum/eng/llibres/1.html (3967 words)

	konvolut m
		One never knows with this sort of things whether the variations are there to make things easier or harder.
		(Note that a univocalic, ala the sections of Bok's Eunoia, with exactly 2001 occurrences of 'i' would satisfy the constraint as well.)
		The piece was written just before 2001 actually started.
	konvolutm.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_konvolutm_archive.html (9569 words)

	Children's Poetry in the The Poetry Zone
		But from Mum he got a big smack!
		The univocalic is a very obscure form of poetry in which a poem uses only ONE of the five available vowels - A, E, I, O or U. No other vowels are allowed.
		The joint winners of this challenge were Nicole and Sarah-Lynn for these two great poems.
	www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk /challenge4.htm (2506 words)

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