The aphesis ( starting points ) were made of stone.
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The opposite process, the loss of a sound from the beginning of a word, is called apheresis or aphesis.
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Most etymologists believe it to be the product of aphesis, the process by which we clip unaccented vowel syllables off a word's stem.
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It almost looks like " aphesis " is an example of apheresis .-- [ pleasantries ] 21 : 20, 28 May 2015 ( UTC)
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Leet can be pronounced as a single syllable,, rhyming with " eat, " by way of aphesis of the initial vowel of " elite ".
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*I thought that one of Ben and Edith had made a spelling error, but it turns out that " aphesis " and " apheresis " are both recognised, and mean the same thing.
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Is this ever done with initial cut-offs ? ( Side question : Is " phone " an aphesis, or what would you call this type of word ? )---talk 15 : 58, 7 December 2008 ( UTC)
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:The Oxford Companion to the English Language under " aphesis " says " Younger children often speak aphetically, a style that Rudyard Kipling imitates in " Just So Stories " [ . . . ] "-- talk ) 19 : 54, 28 May 2015 ( UTC)
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*: The third edition of " Fowler's Modern English Usage " says of " aphesis " " J . A . H . Murray's term for'the gradual and unintentional loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; as in " squire " for " esquire ", " down " for " adown " . . . It is a special form of the phonetic process called " Aph�resis " for which, from its frequency in the history of the English language, a distinctive term is useful.
Meaning
the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire'' for `esquire''
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