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Elision Defined
The omission of a letter or syllable as a means of contraction, generally to achieve a uniform metrical pattern, but sometimes to smooth the pronunciation; most such omissions are marked with an apostrophe. Specific types of elision include aphaeresis, apocope, syncope, synaeresis, and synaloepha, most of which can be found in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
Sidelight: The opposite of elision is hiatus: the slight break in articulation caused by the occurrence of contiguous vowels, either within a word as "naive" or in the final and beginning vowels of successive words, as "the umbrella."
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- Language Log: Saying more with less: Indeed, though economy of expression, or brevity, was surely the original motive for people's omitting highly predictable sentence-initi al material, in a kind of strategic reshaping of linguistic material, the conventionaliz ation of the results seems to h
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