lipography
/lɪˈpɒɡrəfi
/noun [mass noun] Linguistics
The omission of a letter or syllable in writing.Some writers have taken lipography to extremes....
- The second 'sit' having dropped out by lipography, descensurus was altered to descensurum.
- Erroneous omissions are few and short and can generally be ascribed to lipography.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek lip- (stem of leipein 'to leave (out)') + -o- + -graphy.
- torus
- Toruń
- Torvill and Dean
- Tory
- Toryism
- tosa
- to save one's life
- to say nothing of
- to say the least (of it)
- to scale
- Toscana
- Toscanini, Arturo
- to scream (also cry, yell,etc.) blue murder
- to seek
- tosh
- to size
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- to someone's cost
- to spare
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- tosser
- tossing the caber
- toss it in
- toss one's cookies