ELISION
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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ELISION. In
SPEECH and WRITING, the omission or slurring (
eliding) of one or more vowels, consonants, or syllables, as in
ol' man old man,
gonna going to,
wannabe want to be, and the usual pronunciation of
parliament (‘parlement’). Although in speech there is no direct indication of elision, in writing it is often marked by an
APOSTROPHE:
didn't did not,
I'd've I would have. Elision is common in everyday speech and may be specially marked in verse to ensure that readers keep the metre, as in
th'empire. Foreign students often have difficulty coming to terms with elisions created by the stress-timed
RHYTHM of English, which may make word sequences seem nonsensical,
It is no good at all sounding like
Snow good a tall. See
APHAERESIS,
APHESIS,
APOCOPE, APOSIOPESIS,
ELLIPSIS,
SYNCOPE.
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