Associations to the word «Haplology»

Wiktionary

HAPLOLOGY, noun. (linguistics) The process of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.
HAPLOLOGY, noun. An instance of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope