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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
apocope /əˈpɒkəpi/

▶noun Linguistics omission of the final sound of a word, as when cup of tea is pronounced as cuppa tea.

– origin C16: from late L., from Gk apokoptein ‘cut off’.

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