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Noun: aphaeresis  u'fe-ri-sis
  1. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in 'coon' for 'raccoon' or 'till' for 'until'
    "Aphaeresis is common in informal speech and dialects";
    - apheresis

Type of: deletion, omission

Encyclopedia: Aphaeresis