Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wrong or imperfect transcription; a faulty copy.
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- noun Incorrect
transcription .
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Examples
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But this was a mistranscription from Foreign Office figures, which gave 79 as the tally approved for Kuwait in 2006; this would mean a total of 444 arms export licences approved for Kuwait since 2003.
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Steve Hays: I don't know of any inerrantist scholar who resolves the alleged chronological discrepancy between Matthew and Luke on this issue by appealing to a mistranscription.
Imperfect World, Imperfect Bible James F. McGrath 2009
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This led to an amusing mistranscription that I just had to include, because it's funny:
Chris Weigant: Media's Credibility (Not Public Option) Is What Is Dead 2009
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Lacking reliable internet access, I actually phoned a post into the office — this one — and I see now for the first time, two years later, that it contained this mistranscription: Not that he thought his 2002 decision was wrong: ‘I did not, certainly, object,’ Rizzo told Senator J.
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Sponsored a bill to make mistranscription a capital crime.
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He says the copy of the Qur'an used today is a mistranscription of the original text from Muhammad's time, which according to Islamic tradition was destroyed by the third caliph, Osman, in the seventh century.
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Stanley was indexed as "Sandy" in 1900, but I'm not confident that this was not a mistake by the enumerator or a mistranscription.
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Do you suppose Kleinzahler actually wrote "The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating" or is that last word a mistranscription of "deprecating"?
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This is Gabler's mistranscription from the facsimile of a Ulysses galley at Harvard.
Making the Wrong Joyce Kidd, John 1997
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[38] There is evidently a slip of some sort here, due either to mistranscription or to a slip between Messa's hand and brain.
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