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miswriting

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miswriting

  1. present participle and gerund of miswrite

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miswriting (plural miswritings)

  1. (countable) A miswritten word.
    Coordinate terms: misspeaking, misspeech, speako; spello; copy-pasto; scanno; thinko
    Near-synonyms: slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ; writo; typo; misprint
    • 2020, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 191 (fol. 18v,3), page 377:
      The form mrkws of the Istanbul manuscript is certainly a miswriting of a spelling variant of jārkūn.

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