71: When and why do some words (like ’interesting’) lose a syllable?
American English Pronunciation Podcast
August 12, 20096m 23s
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Show Notes
Linguistic concepts of 'syncope' and 'compression' make big words into smaller words. Luckily, there is a pattern.
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