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dittography
[
dih-
tog
-r
uh
-fee
]
dit·tog·ra·phy
/
dɪˈtɒg
rə
fi
/
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[
dih-
tog
-r
uh
-fee
]
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noun
reduplication of letters or
syllables
in writing, printing, etc., usually through
error
.
Compare
haplography
.
Origin:
1870–75;
<
Greek
dittographía,
dialectal variant of
dissographía,
equivalent to
dissó
(
s
) double +
-graphia
-graphy
Related forms
dit·to·graph·ic
/
ˌdɪt
əˈgræf
ɪk
/
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[
dit-
uh
-
graf
-ik
]
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,
adjective
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Dittography
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ninnyhammer
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ort
. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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dittography
(dɪˈtɒɡrəfɪ)
—
n
,
pl
-phies
1.
the unintentional repetition of letters or words
2.
a passage of manuscript demonstrating dittography
dittographic
—
adj
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