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Other crossword clues for answer "ELISION"

ELISION
Utterance of "fo'c's'le" or "bos'n"
Speaker's omission
Speaker's shortcut
Apostrophe's purpose, often
Slurring
Talkin' like this
Syllable skipping
Pronunciation omission
Jack-o'-lantern feature
Saying "I dunno," say
Speech shortening
Sound loss
A striking out.
Striking out part of a word.
Slurring over of a vowel.
Suppression of a vowel.
Euphonic omission.
Relative of syncope.
Omission of a vowel.
Syncope.
Omission of a syllable.
Vowel suppression.
Vowel omission.
Omission
Act of omitting
Syllable omission
Omission, as of a vowel
Apocope
Dropping of a vowel in pronunciation
A dropping-out
A going-over
What an apostrophe may signal
Skip it
Fo'c'sle feature
Will-o'-the-wisp feature
Feature of "G'day" or "Yes'm"
Something Cap'n Crunch has
Omission of a vowel in pronunciation
Omission of a syllable in pronunciation