Apocope
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In phonology, apocope is the loss (elision) of one or more sounds from the end of a word, and especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.
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- Abbreviation
- Acronym and initialism
- Apheresis (linguistics)
- Clipping (morphology)
- Contraction (grammar)
- Elision
- Syncope (phonetics)
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