I see that I haven't blogged the ENTIRE month of February, which is a new record of some kind of futility (or possibly: commitment to work outside of cyberspace. Take your pick.).
To get the ball rolling again, I shall submit a list of terms from linguistics that illustrate what they mean. The late Herb Paper and I cooked these up years ago over lunch (although "haplogy" already existed as a joke among linguists).
HAPLOGY < haplology
DITTOTOGRAPHY < dittography
SYNCPE < syncope
APOCOP < apocope
'PHAERESIS < aphaeresis
NANSALIZANTION < nasalization
ANAPATYXIS < anaptyxis
Nice, Ed: these gave me a smile this morning. I can easily picture Dr. Paper in the discussion.
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