writo
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From write + -o, after the pattern of typo.
Noun
[edit]writo (plural writos)
- An error made when writing by hand.
- Coordinate terms: typo; misprint; clicko, copy-pasto, scanno, speako, spello, thinko
- Near-synonyms: slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ; miswriting
- 2015, Tony Fairman, “Language in print and handwriting”, in Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier, Richard J. Watts, editors, Letter Writing and Language Change, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 69:
- After individual styles, hapax legomena and writos (slips of writers' pens, as typos are accidental but patterned slips of typists' fingers) have been identified and isolated, the structures of the language of all writers can be researched.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:writo.
Translations
[edit]error in writing
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