mistranscribe
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Etymology edit
mis- + transcribe
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mistranscribe (third-person singular simple present mistranscribes, present participle mistranscribing, simple past and past participle mistranscribed)
- (transitive) To transcribe incorrectly.
- 2008 January 22, Motoko Rich, “Editing of Frost Notebooks in Dispute”, in New York Times[1]:
- Now a recently published compendium of his personal notebooks is coming under attack from two critics who say that the editor of the volume, Robert Faggen, mistranscribed hundreds, if not thousands, of Frost’s words.