| lipography |
| Definition: The omission of a letter or syllable when writing. |
| Example: Writing omision instead of omission |
| Etymology: The word derives from the Greek leipein, be wanting + graphos, writing. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: Its first citation is from 1888: "Haplography or Lipography … is a special and very common case of omission." (J. Gow Comp. Classics 55) |