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  2. Wikipedia:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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    Some acronyms are formed by contraction; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations. Some trademarks (e.g. Nabisco) and titles of published works (e.g. “Ain't That a Shame”) consist of or contain contractions; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles, respectively.

  3. Poetic contraction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope , these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [ 1 ]

  4. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...

  5. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1255 on Monday, November 25 ...

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    If you’re stuck on today’s Wordle answer, we’re here to help—but beware of spoilers for Wordle 1255 ahead. Let's start with a few hints.

  6. Crasis - Wikipedia

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    Crasis (/ ˈ k r eɪ s ɪ s /; [1] from the Greek κρᾶσις, lit. ' mixing ' or ' blending ') [2] is a type of contraction in which two vowels or diphthongs merge into one new vowel or diphthong, making one word out of two (univerbation).

  7. Babbling - Wikipedia

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    A babbling infant, age 6 months, making ba and ma sounds. Babbling is a stage in child development and a state in language acquisition during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering articulate sounds, but does not yet produce any recognizable words.

  8. Contraction mapping - Wikipedia

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    A contraction mapping has at most one fixed point. Moreover, the Banach fixed-point theorem states that every contraction mapping on a non-empty complete metric space has a unique fixed point, and that for any x in M the iterated function sequence x , f ( x ), f ( f ( x )), f ( f ( f ( x ))), ... converges to the fixed point.

  9. 'Vulva' versus 'vagina': What should we be teaching kids? - AOL

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    Williams says kids begin pointing to and naming body parts between 1 and 2 years of age, but don’t ask questions about bodily functions until they're around 3 years old. Additionally, they need ...