writo
English
Etymology
write + -o, after the pattern of typo.
Noun
writo (plural writos)
- An error made when writing by hand.
- 2015, Tony Fairman, "Language in print and handwriting", in Letter Writing and Language Change (eds. Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier, & Richard J. Watts), Cambridge University Press (2015), →ISBN, page 69:
- After individual styles, hapax legomena and writos (slips of writers' pens, as typos are accidental but patterned slips of typists' fingers) have been identified and isolated, the structures of the language of all writers can be researched.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:writo.