The document discusses how vowels are sometimes dropped in pronunciation, resulting in a reduction of syllables. It provides examples of words that typically have more syllables when fully pronounced, but in casual speech may lose interior vowels and have fewer syllables, such as "dramatic" becoming "drama-tic" or "laboratory" becoming "labra-tory". In total, over 20 word examples are given that demonstrate this phenomenon of "dropped lines" or reduced syllables in pronunciation.
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Dropped syllables
1. DROPPED LINES
Number of syllables
Review: the number of vowels Reduction of syllables
Today /器わ 2 syllables
Hotel /器ワ 2 syllables
Vanity /駈誌器 3 syllables
But sometimes vowels sounds disappear giving as a consequence a
reduction in the number of syllables.
Ex:
Basic ワ鰹
Basically /ワ鰹
Dramatic わ 誌器
Dramatically /わ 誌器
Practice /逸駕誌器鰹
Practically /逸駕誌器/
Differ わ 駕
Different わ駕器
General わワ駕
Generally わワ駕
2. Interest 器 鰹器
Preference 逸駕ワ 鰹
Temperature 器ワ 駕器駕
Family 誌
Laboratory 誌 器駕
Aspirin 誌鰹逸
Chocolate 器 器
Opera 逸
Several 鰹ワ駈
Desperate わワ鰹 駕器
Every ワ駈駕