miswrit
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]miswrit
- (obsolete) past participle of miswrite
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]miswrit (plural miswrits)
- (rare) That which is incorrectly written or transcribed; a typo
- 1908, Supplement to Court Leet Records, volume 1:
- The spellings in ī represent Old French ē2, and if they are not miswrits show merely the tendency to exaggerate the ē beginning of the diphthong ei which was the beginning of that sound.
- 2012, Eiríkr Magnússon, Thómas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Icelandic:
- […] which seems more likely to be a thoughtless scribal repetition of the preceding var, than a miswrit for vart, varla or varlega scarcely.