haplology

Definition | Meaning

  1. A sporadic sound change characterized by the omission in speech of one of several consecutive identical sounds or syllables.

Example | Illustration

  • instead of pronouncing three individual ‘w’s to describe the ‘www’ of a URL address, people may only pronounce one or two ‘w’s

Etymology | Origin

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