Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In paleography and textual criticism: A copyist's mechanical or inadvertent omission of a letter, or of a series of letters or words, repeated in immediate succession in the passage of the original manuscript copied. Errors of this kind were frequently made by ancient copyists, owing to non-separation of words in manuscripts. An example in English would be, if in copying ANDISSEXTTOYOU (‘and is sent to you’), one s should be dropped, so as to read, ‘and I sent to you.’
- n. A reading originating in such an omission. See dittography.
Wiktionary
- n. Accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, for example, mispell for misspell.
Examples
“As a calligraphy teacher, I find the word haplography useful.”
H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“Other slips which always occur in the handing down of manuscripts, such as haplography, dittography, insertion of glosses, transposition, even of entire columns, must also be taken into consideration whilst estimating the text of the Sacred Books.”
“On the website where you can read the entire script of H is for House, there is a charming little note about the word haplography.”
H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“Their omission would seem to be obviously due to haplography.”
“_Quique quod_ is obviously prone to haplography; on the other hand, it could be a rewriting of _qui quod id es_, which is itself presumably a simple corruption through interchange of _qui quod es id_.”
“_Solus_ was lost through haplography ( 'fulua solus': the elongated 's' form common in manuscripts would have facilitated the error) and _tristis_ interpolated to restore the metre.”
“NVNC (_FIL_) looks like a rewriting of the line, perhaps following the loss of _crimen_ by haplography (_cr_iM _s_im_ilE_).”
“The business about haplography and dittography and homoteleuton reminds me of H for Housman as a critic … It’s certainly relevant to our new textual problems – that is, how poems are reproduced on the web.”
H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘haplography’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Sound Sex
taciturn, deflower, recursive, parapraxis, comitative, atelic, awkward, eccentric, libidinous, astereognosis, aloof, moonglade and 44 more...
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Incorrectum
Mistakes, Errors and Accidents.
nihilartikel, solecism, bevue, corrigendum, acyrology, cacoepy, fido, hamartithia, jeofail, mésalliance, mumpsimus, pseudochronism and 63 more...
ruzuzu Nice catch! Oct 4, 2011
leaden The OCR software appears to have made a Freudian slip in the CDC’s definition. Oct 3, 2011
leaden N.B. that haplography refers to omissions of letters in written or printed language, while haplology refers to omissions of sounds in speech. Oct 3, 2011
spicolli Variant of haplology Mar 14, 2007