| In literature apocope is confined to poetry, but in the prose inscriptions of the dialects it is frequent. |
| You will understand that it has one, when I tell you that we have here a very curious case of apocope. |
| For it is easy to show that with regard to syncope, apocope, elision, and slurring they are treated quite in the same way. |
| While possibly an Anglicised rendering of a Maori name, it might just as easily be the result of apocope in te reo Maori, as with the aforementioned para. |
| The latter indicates the dropping of a vowel or syllable in medial position, and is not a synonym for apocope. |
| Elision refers to the loss of phonemes in any position, and apocope is one form of elision. |
