Synaloepha (sin-a-lif’-a): Omitting one of two vowels which occur together at the end of one word and the beginning of another. A contraction of neighboring syllables. A kind of metaplasm.
All we need is Greenland. The USA has money to burn, not waste time considering consequences. After all, did George Washington consider the consequence? ‘braham Lincoln? What about Jesse James and Al Capone? No! They just rushed headlong into the future. I’m like them. Lucky as hell. Look at all the lawsuits I’ve evaded, and the ditzy wives I’ve dumped. You should be calling me Donald Washington or Abraham Trump. Onward to Greenland. Is it actually green?
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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