Mistranscribe

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To transcribe incorrectly. transitive

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From mis- + transcribe.

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