| \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. |
| Quotes |
May I add a note to John Kidd’s “The scandal of Ulysses” on the related ruckus over textual corruptions in the Gilbert and Ellmann edition of Joyce’s letters … in the novel the disappearance of an aposiopesis and a dieresis, dittography replacing what had been mistaken as haplography, etc.
-- Robert Craft, Letter to the editor, "'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange,"The New York Review of Books, August 18, 1988 |
| Origin |
| Haplography comes from the Greek roots haplo-, meaning "single," and -graphy, which denotes a process of writing. |
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