what are dropped syllables ?

Dropped syllables are syllables which are not pronounced. For example the word "chocolate" would appear to have 3 syllables but in fact the middle syllable is dropped and we only pronounce the first and the last.

example; choc -late


There are many examples: aspirin
business
Wednesday

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