Word written twice
doubled-wordon by defaultJapanese / English
The same word written twice in a row, as in "the the"
Example
How to fix
Delete the extra word. If a rewrite was half done ("our the platform"), keep the wording you meant.
Why it matters
The same word twice in a row ("the the"), or two words where English takes one ("our the platform"), is left over from an edit. The reader stumbles, and the document looks rushed. In Japanese, the same particle on both sides of a parenthetical aside (本規約は（以下、規約）は) is left over the same way. Repeats that grammar allows ("had had", "that that", "is, is") and repeats for emphasis ("very very") are not counted.
What it does not flag
Repeats that grammar allows ("had had", "that that"), repeats for emphasis ("very very"), and the same word in two different parts of speech are not reported. Nor is kana repeated inside a Japanese reading in parentheses (凛々（りり）しい).
Turning it off or relaxing it
Technical details
- Layer
- L3
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- warning
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- blog, business, technical, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
- Reads from the document
- pos
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | error |
|---|---|
| normal | warning |
| relaxed | info |
This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address
- Turned off by the genre in
- literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/transcript
Message
"{word}" doubles a word; one of the two is left over
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/doubled-word.yaml