From projects written using very specific words to books penned without particular letters. A lipogram is a literary work in which a particular letter of the alphabet is intentionally avoided.

One involved running the letters of a word together—and cursive (based on the Latin verb currere, “to run”) as we now know it began. As the U.S. educational system developed, new types of ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago. In 2010, most ...