http://wordie.org/words/elision Comments for the word 'Elision' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/elision#comments Elision was used in Greek to avoid <a href="/words/pausis">pausis</a>, a glottal stop between two vowels, which they considered <a href="/words/ugly">ugly</a>. Hence we got silly constructs like ta auta becoming tauta, rendering the word for 'the same things' virtually identical to the one for 'that' with the minor exception of having an unused breathing mark left in the middle of the word. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:06:44 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/elision#comments http://wordie.org/words/elision#comments I like the French pronunciation of this word. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:43:55 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/elision#comments