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haplography

[hap-log-ruh-fee]
noun
  1. the accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, as in Missippi for Mississippi.
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Origin of haplography

First recorded in 1885–90; haplo- + -graphy
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British Dictionary definitions for haplography

haplography

noun plural -phies
  1. the accidental writing of only one letter or syllable where there should be two similar letters or syllables, as in spelling endodontics as endontics
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Word Origin

C19: from Greek, from haplous single + -graphy
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Word Origin and History for haplography

n.

scribal error of writing only once a letter that should have been written twice; see haplo- + -graphy.

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