haplographyn.
/haˈplɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /hæˈplɑɡrəfi/ Chiefly Palaeography.
The practice or an act of inadvertently writing a letter or word, or series of letters or words, once, when it should have been repeated. Opposed to dittography n.
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society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [noun] > errors
cacography1656
a slip of the pen1659
dittography1876
haplography1886
lapsus calami1893
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in written mode > single for double
haplography1886
1886 J. Wordsworth et al. Portions of Gospels Introd. p. cxxxiii Omission of one or two doubled letters (Haplography)..fatu[u]m.
1888 J. Gow Compan. to Classics 55 Haplography or Lipography..is a special and very common case of omission.
1896 W. M. Lindsay Introd. Lat. Textual Emend. iii The commonest kind of omission is that known as Haplography... In Virgil G[eorgics] iv. 311, for example, Miscentur, tenuemque magis, magis aera carpunt. Some MSS. offer tenuemque magis aera, omitting the second magis.
1993 Eng. Today Apr. 45/2 They won't spot the opposite slip, haplography (a dropped word).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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