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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Haplography #167971 05/01/2007 7:38 PM Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1 Canterbury, Kent, UK Pteropus stranger Pteropus stranger Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1 Canterbury, Kent, UK For the cleverest and most entertaining use of this word I've ever seen, I refer everyone to _The Shortest Way to Hades_ by the late lamented Sarah Caudwell. Her Oxford don and sometime sleuth Professor Hilary Tamar uses the concept of haplography to solve the murder! Or should that be the murderer... (And if you've never read Sarah Caudwell before, you are in for a rare treat. Yes, even those of you who don't think you like detective fiction. Caudwell is in a league of her own.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Haplography Pteropus #168101 05/06/2007 2:19 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA For what it's woprth: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dittography dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Haplography dalehileman #168115 05/07/2007 3:42 PM Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1 Annette Warden stranger Annette Warden stranger Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1 Have you ever noticed how many people would like to be elected Presint of the Unied States and fix SoSecurity? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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