Editing Haplography

{{Short description|Accidental omission of content in text}}
'''Haplography''' (from Greek: haplo- 'single' + -graphy 'writing'), also known as '''lipography''' (from Greek: lip- from leipein 'to leave/to omit' + -graphy 'writing'),<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chambers_21st_Century_Dictionary/Z7Ymjw1o9a0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Lipography&pg=PA796&printsec=frontcover Chambers 21st century dictionary, p.796]</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_Early_English/enmvCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Lipogram&pg=PA390&printsec=frontcover Dictionary of Early English, p.390]</ref> is a [[scribal error|scribal]] or [[typographical error]] where a letter or group of letters that should be written twice is written once. It is not to be confused with [[haplology]], where a phoneme is omitted to prevent two similar sounds from occurring consecutively: the former is a textual error, while the latter is a phonological process. 

In English, a common haplographical mistake is the rendering of consecutive letters between [[morphemes]] as a single letter. Many [[commonly misspelled words]] have this form. For example, ''misspell'' is often misspelled as {{typo|''mi|spell''}}. The etymology of the word ''misspell'' is the affix "mis-" plus the root "spell", their bound morpheme has two consecutive ''s''s, one of which is often erroneously omitted. The reverse phenomenon, in which a copyist inadvertently repeats a portion of text, is known as [[dittography]].

Other examples of words liable to be written haplographically in different languages are: German ''Rollladen'' ("shutters", from ''roll'' + ''Laden'') which requires an uncommon sequence of three ''l''‘s and is often spelt {{typo|''Rolladen''}}, or Arabic ''takyīf'' {{lang|ar|تكييف}} ("air conditioning"), which would require a sequence of two semivowels ''y'' (one as a true semivowel, and another as a device to mark long ''ī'') and is often misspelt as ''takīf'' {{typo|{{lang|ar|تكيف}}}}, with only one.

The term ''haplography'' is commonly used in the field of [[textual criticism]] to refer to the phenomenon of a scribe's, copyist's or translator's inadvertently skipping from one word or phrase to a similar word or phrase further on in the text, and omitting everything in between.<ref>This usage can be seen at {{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fnBj3_hJOXIC&pg=PA99 |first1=David Noel |last1=Freedman |first2=Shawna Dolansky |last2=Overton |chapter=Omitting the omissions: the case for haplography in the transmission of the biblical texts |title="Imagining" Biblical Worlds: studies in spatial, social and historical constructs in honor of James W. Flanagan |editor1-first=David M. |editor1-last=Gunn |editor2-first=Paula M. |editor2-last=McNutt |place=London |publisher=Sheffield Academic |year=2002 |series=Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series |volume=359 |isbn=0-8264-6149-2 |pages=99–116 }}</ref> It is considered to be a form of [[wikt:parablepsis|parablepsis]].

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