OMGFact(s)Check - Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word novel, “Gadsby”, which doesn’t contain the letter E.

February 15, 2010

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word novel, “Gadsby”, which doesn’t contain the letter E.

True - impressively Ernest Vincent Wright was able to pen 50,110 words into a grammatically correct lipogramatic novel in 1939 without the use of the letter ‘e’ as well as avoiding any abbreviations where the letter would be omitted (but present upon expansion) such as Mr. or Mrs.

p.s. we briefly entertained the notion to write this fact-check as a lipogram, but were quick to realize that we are very much fact-checkers and not literary geniuses. If anyone out there in the internet can do it, we’d love to see it!

original claim: @OMGFacts; source: wikipedia

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