Usage examples (7)

• Much of the losses of the printing house were from dittography which produced useless duplicates.
• Its opposite is dittography: the writing twice of what should have been written once, such as ‘critics’ becoming ‘crititics’.
• I would see "gingerlyly" as a dittography or "dittottography", as some linguists ought not to be able to resist calling it, if they are to be consistent.
• Other slips which always occur in the handing down of manuscripts, such as haplography, dittography, insertion of glosses, transposition, even of entire columns, must...