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- noun humorous
haplology
Etymologies
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Haplology of haplology itself.
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What we seem to have here, rather, is a haplology or "haplogy," as some linguists can't resist calling it, the process which gave us Latin nutrix in place of the predicted *nutritrix and which leads people to say missippi instead of mississippi.
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