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whats elision?
When the accented syllables are pronounced rapidly in connected speech, to maintain the characteristic rhythm of the language, especially English certain sounds are dropped ie., the "weak forms" are used, in which either a sound is dropped or replaced by another.

In simple words, the term elision can be defined as, "the omission of a sound in speech".

For example:

telephone (tel-e-phone/tel-phone)
separate (sep-are-rate/sep-rat)
chocolate (choc-o-late/choc-lat)
camera (cam-er-a/cam-ra)

Elision is common in casual conversation.


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