As a calligraphy teacher, I find the word haplography useful. From Wordnik.com. [H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [H is for House : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
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