| This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of the 14th century, intentionally written in bad French. |
| That word was created from it later by losing its first syllable through a process called aphesis and had the same sense. |
| The loss of that first a from alackaday results from a process known as aphesis. |
| Aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in 'baccy and 'later. |
| One of the elements of grammaticalization, the aphesis, constitutes a proof for the phonetic reduction in progress. |
| Most etymologists believe it to be the product of aphesis, the process by which we clip unaccented vowel syllables off a word's stem. |
