| He was employing a figure of speech, the apocope, which snips off the last part of a word. |
| Does not the final 'y' of 'tawny' suppose an apostrophe and apocope? |
| In these dialects many words end in a consonant but they cannot be seen as an apocope of an Italian word. |
| The latter indicates the dropping of a vowel or syllable in medial position, and is not a synonym for apocope. |
| In literature apocope is confined to poetry, but in the prose inscriptions of the dialects it is frequent. |
| Elision refers to the loss of phonemes in any position, and apocope is one form of elision. |
