I have a new word for you.
January 31st, 2003
I have a new word for you. First, some background:
- typo
-
/tay·po/ Short for “typographical error” — historically, an error introduced by
the typesetting process; now, any spelling or orthographic error in
a text. - pasteo
- /pes·to/ Neologism Etymology: riff on
“typo”. A typographical
error introduced by careless use of Copy & Paste functionality
on a computer.
And now, my addition:
- search-and-replaceto
-
/sərč ænd riplesto/ Neologism Etymology: riff on
“typo” by way of rime with “pasteo”. An error introduced by
careless use of Search & Replace (or, in my case,
:%s/foo/bar in vim).
OED, are you listening?