haplography
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haplography (countable and uncountable, plural haplographies)
- Accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, for example, mispell for misspell.
- 1999, Elaine Treharne, “Romanticizing the Past in the Middle English Athelston”, in The Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press:
- In the apparatus of Trounce's edition, dittography occurs at line 266, haplography at line 352, and there are numerous erasures and corrections within the text.
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accidental omission
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