Letter bank¶
letter_bank · letter · validated
A text drawing only on the letters of a chosen source word, each of which must appear at least once and may repeat freely.
Provenance¶
- Source: Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics (1968 onwards)
- Attribution:
reference— attested in a standard reference rather than traced to an origin - Checkability:
self— decidable from the text and its parameters alone - Attested:
codified— formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author
Details¶
- Kind: restrictive
- Languages: en
- Requires:
tokens,fold_diacritics - Deterministic: yes
Prompt hint¶
Write using only the letters of the source word, using every one of them at least once.
Parameters¶
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
bank |
string | — |
The source word supplying the permitted letters. |
fold_diacritics |
boolean | True |
Treat accented letters as their base letter, and ß as ss. |
Examples¶
drawn-from-the-bank¶
en — this text satisfies the procedure.
meander named
Parameters: bank='meander'
Source: constructed example; the form is described in Word Ways
strays-outside-the-bank¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
meander zoo
Parameters: bank='meander'
Source: constructed counterexample