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n. Omission of a final or initial sound in pronunciation.

n. Omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable, as in scanning a verse.

n. The act or an instance of omitting something.

n. The deliberate omission of something.

n. The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

n. A striking or cutting off; specifically, in grammar, the cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, naturally or for the sake of euphony or meter, especially at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel; more generally, the suppression of any part of a word in speech or writing: as, in “th' embattled plain” there is an elision of e; in “I'll not do it” there is an elision of wi.

n. Division; separation.

n. a deliberate act of omission

n. omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

"In addition to that, the reaction of most of my learners (I do believe we should always take our context into account so I need to talk about my learners) when they are first taught about the rhythm of the language, liaisons and elision is of shock and indignation."

omission    deletion   

syncope   

elide   

denotement    purism    pragmatists    stickle    whie    harmonizing    compend    praxis    definer    eversion