🔤 Syncope ✨
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URDU
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ENGLISH
📚noun
syncope
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: sɪŋkəpi
Phonetic: sɪŋkəpi
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DEFINITION
The loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't, never to ne'er, or the pronunciation of the -cester ending in placenames as -ster (for example, Leicester pronounced Leister or Lester, and Worcester pronounced Wooster).
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