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EPENTHESIS
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Irregular inflected form: epentheses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier
Example:
the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the word 'bush' is epenthesis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("epenthesis" is a kind of...):
articulation (the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech)
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