Timeline for Is there a term for the reduplication of letters?
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| Dec 3, 2016 at 18:28 | vote | accept | Featherball | ||
| Dec 5, 2016 at 17:09 | |||||
| Dec 3, 2016 at 18:07 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @John: Would say effect is "reduplication" then? I don't know diddly squat, obviously, but I'd have thought that one was just a matter of orthography. | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 18:07 | answer | added | Richard Kayser | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 18:04 | comment | added | John Lawler | Why not? Linguists do, though not when referring to alphabetic letters. | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 18:04 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | What @Richard said. Per OED, reduplication has the special sense in linguistics: repetition of a syllable or letter that expresses a grammatical feature. I don't think that applies to all OP's examples here. | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 18:00 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | Double letters? Why do you say reduplicated instead of duplicated? | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 17:25 | history | asked | Featherball | CC BY-SA 3.0 |