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What does haplography mean?

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  1. Accidental omission of a letter or letter group that should be repeated in writing, for example, mispell for misspell.
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Examples of the second type are treatments on dittography, haplography, harmonization, and itacisms.
The other case occurs in Gudea's address to Ningirsu and it seems to me that it was due to haplography.
I suggest a haplography to solve the difficulty of the line.
Haplography is writing once what should be written twice, such as defendum rather than defendendum, and dittography is the opposite.
Wasserman's suggestion of a scribal mistake or haplography would eliminate a problem and unify the collection of examples for nominal hendiadys.
Haplography, or the accidental omission of a letter or word that occurs twice in close proximity, can be found, for example, in the Dead Sea Scroll text of Isaiah.

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