Dittography

Dittography is the accidental, erroneous act of repeating a letter, word, phrase or combination of letters by a scribe or copyist.^[1] The term is used in the field of textual criticism. The opposite phenomenon, in which a copyist omits text by skipping from a word or phrase to a similar word or phrase further on, is known as haplography.

^ Paul D. Wegner, A student's guide to textual criticism of the Bible: its history, methods, and results Archived 2021-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, InterVarsity Press, 2006, p. 48.

[1] Paul D. Wegner, A student's guide to textual criticism of the Bible: its history, methods, and results Archived 2021-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, InterVarsity Press, 2006, p. 48.

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