ELIDE

• A drawler might do it

• Abridge

• Annul legally

• Annul, in law

• Apocopate

• Bypass

• Bypass a vowel

• Change captain to cap'n, e.g.

• Choose not to say?

• Curtail

• Cut off, as a final vowel

• Cut short

• Cut, as syllables

• Don't pronounce

• Drop

• Drop a letter or two

• Drop a vowel

• Drop in pronunciation

• Drop in speech

• Drop out of the conversation?

• Drop syllables

• Drop vowels

• Drop, as a vowel sound

• Eliminate a syllable, perhaps

• Fail to enunciate

• Fail to pronounce

• Fail to say

• Fail to say clearly

• Gloss over

• Gloss over, like a syllable

• Gloss over, vocally

• Go over

• Have nothin' to say, e.g.

• Ignore

• Ignore in pronunciation

• Ignore, in a way

• Leave out

• Leave out a vowel

• Leave out a vowel, e.g.

• Leave out in elocution

• Leave out in pronunciation

• Leave out, as a syllable

• Leave out, as a vowel

• Leave out, in speech

• Lose a phoneme

• Make an omission

• Mispronounce

• Omit

• Omit a syllable

• Omit a vowel

• Omit from pronunciation

• Omit in pronounciation

• Omit in speech

• Omit orally

• Omit out of consideration

• Omit something, in speech

• Omit syllables

• Omit, as a syllable

• Omit, like the t in Swee'Pea

• Pass over

• Pass over in pronouncing

• Pass over, as a consonant

• Say

• Say 'ere or 'ead

• Say bo's'n, say

• Say bos'n for boatswain, e.g.

• Say bos'n or cap'n

• Say c'est, say

• Say cap'n, e.g.

• Say cap'n, say

• Say e'er, for example

• Say e'er, for instance

• Say fo'c's'le, for instance

• Say fo'c'sle, e.g.

• Say fo'c'sle, for example

• Say g'bye

• Say G'day or Go 'way

• Say goin', for example

• Say I'm goin', e.g.

• Say I'm thinkin', e.g.

• Say L'il Abner, say

• Say labratory, e.g.

• Say li'l, say

• Say nothin'

• Say nothin', e.g.

• Say nothin', say

• Say somethin'

• Say somethin' like that

• Say somethin', e.g.

• Say somethin', say

• Say vow'l, for example

• Say wannabe, for example

• Say Worcestershire

• Say y'all, say

• Sayli'l, e.g.

• Shorten

• Shorten pronunciation

• Shorten, in a way

• Shorten, in speaking

• Skip

• Skip a sound

• Skip a syllable

• Skip a syllable, e.g.

• Skip in speech

• Skip over

• Skip over in pronouncing

• Skip over in pronunciation

• Skip over in speech

• Skip over, as a syllable

• Skip over, as a vowel

• Skip, as a sound

• Skip, as a syllable

• Slide over

• Slide over, phonetically

• Slur

• Slur in speech

• Slur one's speech

• Slur over

• Slur over a syllable

• Slur over a vowel

• Slur over or drop

• Slur over vowels

• Slur over, as a syllable

• Slur over, as a vowel

• Slur words

• Suppress

• Suppress a syllable

• Use a short form

• Use a short form of