We want to call this a typo, but we know that someone will point out that it is more a matter of poor proofreading.

We would like to remind those skeptics that, to produce an error like this, one types the word twice, and we assert that a typo is not merely the accidental substitution of one letter for another, or leaving out a letter that changes the meaning of a word.

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