Phonetic Contractions Crossword Clue

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	noun • a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain • (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
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	noun • omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) • a deliberate act of omission
	36%	9		Phonetic contractions in writing
	noun • (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' • a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion

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New York Times20 Apr 1997	Down 54
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