The Letter E
It ain’t that important
2 min readApr 12, 2022
A Bengali poet jokingly asked Michael Datta an Anglo poet of great renown “As a master of the English language, can you make a sentence without use of the letter “E”?”
His response the poet replied: “I doubt I can. It’s a major part of many words. Omitting it is as hard as making muffins without flour. It’s as hard as spitting without saliva or napping without a pillow…