apocope
/əˈpɑkəpi/
noun
- The loss of one or more sounds or letters from the end of a word.
- Apocope often happens in informal speech, like saying 'info' instead of 'information'.
- The word 'photo' is an example of apocope from 'photograph'.
- Linguists study apocope to understand how languages evolve over time.
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