and "shan't" change vowel from /æ/ of "can" and "shall" to /?:/ in /k?:nt/, /??:nt/. In some languages employing the Latin alphabet, such as English, the omitted letters in a contraction are replaced by an apostrophe (e.g., isn't for is not). Written Greek marks elisions in the same way.

Elision in poetry

Elision is frequently found in verse. It is sometimes explicitly marked in the spelling, and in other cases has to be inferred from knowledge of the

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