Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun A reading originating in such an omission. See
dittography .
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- noun Accidental
omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, for example, mispell for misspell.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a calligraphy teacher, I find the word haplography useful.
H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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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 2007
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Their omission would seem to be obviously due to haplography.
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_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_.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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_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.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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NVNC (_FIL_) looks like a rewriting of the line, perhaps following the loss of _crimen_ by haplography (_cr_iM _s_im_ilE_).
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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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 2007
spicolli commented on the word haplography
Variant of haplology
March 14, 2007
leaden commented on the word haplography
N.B. that haplography refers to omissions of letters in written or printed language, while haplology refers to omissions of sounds in speech.
October 4, 2011
leaden commented on the word haplography
The OCR software appears to have made a Freudian slip in the CDC’s definition.
October 4, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word haplography
Nice catch!
October 4, 2011