When I'm typing I often combine two words together if the words share a common letter or letters. For example, 'both the' nearly always becomes 'bothe' and 'do you' sometimes becomes 'dou'. Is there a name for this kind of typo/error?

TabbyTom

I'd say its a form of haplography ("the inadvertent writing once of what should have been written twice" - Chambers). Nov 20 05, 2:43 PM

wajo	Thanks Tom... new word for me! Nov 20 05, 3:05 PM

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