Apocope (a-pok’-o-pe): Omitting a letter or syllable at the end of a word. A kind of metaplasm.
I’m goin’ to the supermarket right after lunch. Is there anythin’ I can get you?
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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