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#25776 04/03/01 03:36 PM
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To mean a mistake while writing something, we use `typo', but what is the word -- if there is anything -- to mean any mistake we make while reading something. (The kind of problem missing out word(s) to understand the text in a way different from what is actually written in it )

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#25777 04/03/01 03:52 PM
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" any mistake we make while reading something"

"misconstrue" is a formal word, but I cannot think of a handy short word.


#25778 04/03/01 05:16 PM
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There is the word "misread", but it may be more often used in the context of reading aloud.



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