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No "L" Day

Fun · December 25

No "L" Day, also called A'Phabet Day, invites people to drop the letter L from their writing and speech and see how far they get.

No "L" Day falls on Friday, December 25, 2026. That is 59 days away.

No "L" Day asks people to set one letter aside, the L, and try to manage without it. The other name, A'Phabet Day, shows the idea at a glance: take the L out of "alphabet" and that is what remains.

L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and it turns up far more often than most people expect. It sits in "hello" and "please," in "love" and "lunch," and in plenty of names. Once you start listening for it, you hear it everywhere. Giving it up for a day means rewording sentences, picking new greetings and sometimes going quiet when the right word has an L in the middle.

This paragraph is written without that missing character. It is harder than it seems. You must swap words, bend sentences and accept some odd phrasing. A greeting becomes "hi." A note to a friend ends with "take care."

Most people mark the day as a word game. Some write a short note or a social post with no L at all. Others turn it into a challenge at the dinner table or in a classroom, where anyone who says an L word owes a point. Teachers sometimes use it as a spelling exercise, since hunting for a letter makes people read more carefully.

The hardest part is usually your own name, if it has an L in it. A nickname tends to come in handy.

Ways to celebrate

• Write a short note to a friend without using the letter L.
• Try a family game where saying an L word costs a point.
• Read a page of a book and count every L you find.
• Make a list of everyday words that suddenly become off-limits.

Dates

All national days on December 25

Also on December 25

• Christmas Day
• National Pumpkin Pie Day

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