Talk:Haplology

Pierced-ear Earrings
Does this really belong? I don't think there are any kinds of earrings besides pierced-ear ones, and I've never heard the phrase 'pierced earrings' at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.245.223.207 (talk) 06:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 5000+ GHits and cited; 910000 for "pierced earrings". You'll need a stronger argument if you want it remoov'd. -- Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 09:24, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Add examples - e.g. February?
More examples would be helpful. E.g. would February, pronounced as Febry, qualify as haplological? --Singkong2005 talk 03:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree – more examples would be beneficial to the article. I will add some today. As for "February", the omission of the first "r" from it is a different phenomenon from haplology. I forget the exact name of it, but it was discussed on a radio program I tuned into last week. --GentlemanGhost (talk) 19:12, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

February may be a result of r-dropping that nothing to do with haplolgy. Likewise, it would be reasonable to posit that simple metathesis lead from library -> libary rather than haplology. I'll suggest "fantasist" as a better example to add, because there are no liquids to confuse things with alternate possibilities. (melanoman - 30 Oct 2009)

Removed Dutch example
The Dutch example (kunststof -> kunstof) was not haplology, as only part of a syllable (or two) is removed (kunst-stof -> kun-stof / kuns-tof). Jalwikip 14:10, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Why demand that the syllables be medial?
Mediality doesn't seem to bear on the possibility of a haplologisable situation at all. Moreover it's false for the cited examples -- if syllables affected by haplology had to both be medial it couldn't run on shorter than a four-syllable input, but we've got several three-syllable example inputs. So I'm removing that condition. 4pq1injbok (talk) 19:41, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Hamamel(id)idae
This example needs to be better explained; it's not a familiar word. Would I be right to guess that the subclass is named from a Latin(ate?) hamamelis, -lidis, with the oblique stem appearing before the subclass-forming suffix -idae? Was the form with one id a mistake (in spirit if not by rule) at the time it was coined? 4pq1injbok (talk) 19:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, your guess appears to be correct. At this time, I do not know the answer to your second question.
 * Please see Taxonomic rank and v:Introduction to Taxonomy.
 * The Greek origin of the word "Hamamelis" is explained on these pages, which appear to be on commercial websites.
 * Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
 * Witch Hazel, Hamamelis virginiana, witch hazel photos, witch hazel article, by Steven Foster
 * -- Wavelength (talk) 17:16, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I came here from WT:TOL. I don't know anything about Hamamelidae, but there is a similar example in bats—the family Nycteridae. Family names in animals are made by adding -idae to the stem of the name of the type genus. In this case, this is Nycteris, with Greek stem Nycterid-. However, the name is usually spelled "Nycteridae" instead of "Nycterididae". See for a brief discussion. Ucucha 17:27, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Econometrics?
While mineralogy (and similar examples in -logy) certainly qualify as examples, does econometrics too? After all, it seems to stand for expected economometrics.

(Interestingly, non-standard mineralology, philogy and economometrics all yield a large number of Google hits, by far not only in badly redacted texts ...) --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:21, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Term for a word having undergone haplology
I came here wanting to know what the word is (assuming there is one) for a word that has undergone haplology. For example, how would one fill in the blank in "gently is a ____"? This page was unhelpful in this regard. ExcarnateSojourner (talk) 20:37, 29 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Linguists would usually say "This form has undergone haplology", or similar... AnonMoos (talk) 08:04, 30 October 2021 (UTC)