Questions about words formed by the loss or omission of sounds or syllables from a longer word, usually but not always from its end; also known as truncation, shortening, apocope, and apocopation. Examples include: memo from memorandum, ad and advert from advertisement, doc from doctor, fax from facsimile, gator from alligator, coon from raccoon, phone from telephone, flu from influenza, and fancy from fantasy.
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One word for heavily impacts?
Understanding social context 'heavily impacts' our connection to the characters.
Need to cut this sentence down and heavily impacts is a bit clunky!
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Apocope at beginning of sentence
When beginning a sentence with an apocopated word, does one capitalise the first letter printed--ie, the second or later letter of the word? Or does one just let the apostrophe stand for the absent capitalised letter?
Thank you.
Eleonora
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