scanno

See also: scannò and Scanno

English

WOTD – 21 January 2016

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Etymology

scan + -o, modelled on typo.

Pronunciation

Noun

scanno (plural scannos)

  1. A typographical error introduced by optical character recognition (OCR) software, which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape, as *tum for turn, or *Dosition for Position.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin scamnum.

Noun

scanno m (plural scanni)

  1. seat, bench, stool, trestle

Verb

scanno

  1. first-person singular present indicative of scannare
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