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Having read RyanMcGreal's comment above I now realise there is grammatical ambiguity as well as orthographic :)



Having read tome's comment above, I went and looked up "orthography". :)


Is there a word for ambiguity ambiguity? (i.e. Which type of ambiguity?)


Ambiguity ambiguity sounds like semantic ambiguity, but there are lots of different kinds of that. There's a book that disambiguates ambiguity ambiguity, by W. Empson (math geek turned lit prof), Seven Types of Ambiguity.


You just reminded me of why the Internet is an incredible invention.




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