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Elision
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Elision 

in prosody, the dropping of a vowel when two vowels follow consecutively at the end of one word and the beginning of another. The dropped vowel may be pronounced, but it does not count as a syllable. The rules of elision are detailed in metric and syllabic prosody. Elision does not occur in Russian poetry.
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It's a celebration of the pianist's delicate touch: soft-struck phrasing and insinuating elisions of notes, with the sometimes growling, sometimes purring lines of Hodgson and the flickering brushwork of Clarvis strongly evoking the classic Bill Evans trio feel.
Jazz review: Hans Koller Trio, Mond & Sternlein by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir was as disciplined as ever but, unusually for them, their diction let them down with some lazy elisions of words, and others which were not clear at all.
ARTS DIARY: MUSIC Italian Reflections/Philharmonic Hall by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
For these elisions I am grateful; but in the editing there are also losses that I regret.
SOMETHING'S LOST AND SOMETHING'S GAINED by BURWELL, ROSE MARIE / The Hemingway Review
 
 
 
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