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Omitting pieces in speech – TV drops one initially, and a couple more later (7)

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elision

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(Other definitions for elision that I've seen before include "Dropping of vowel" , "Omission (of a syllable)" , "Omission (from a book, etc)" , "Dropping a letter" , "Omission of syllables in speech" .)

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