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noun

• a practitioner of orthoepy (especially one of the 17th or 18th century scholars who proposed to reform English spelling so it would reflect pronunciation more closely)

27%15 Conversion of non-Cockney pronunciation into Cockney pronunciation
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22%7 Dropping of a vowel in pronunciation
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

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New York Times29 Jun 1984 Across 17
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