ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Dittography

Dittography is a fancy word that means writing the same thing twice by accident. You know when you write a word and then write it again by mistake because your brain forgets that you already wrote it? Well, that's dittography! It can happen when you write with a pencil, pen, or even on a computer. It's important to check our work to make sure we don't have any dittography because it can make our writing hard to understand.