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Answer for the clue "Something Cap'n Crunch has ", 7 letters:
elision

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Usage examples of elision.

Elision of final vowels would probably be most common in the spoken language, and in poetry it may also be useful to be able to get rid of a syllable where the poetic meter demands it.

No major-sport player had ever even orbited in close enough to hear the elisions and apical lapses of a mid-Southern accent in her oddly flat but resonant voice that sounded like someone enunciating very carefully inside a soundproof enclosure.

Low-budget celluloid horror films created ambiguity and possible elision by putting ?

Do you remember, dear M——, oh friend of my youth, how one blissful night five-and-twenty years since, the “Hypocrite” being acted, Elision being manager, Dolton and Listen performers, two boys had leave from their loyal masters to go out from Slaughter House School where they were educated, and to appear on Derry Lane stage, amongst a crowd which assembled there to greet the king.

And there were the signs only a linguist could pick up, middle-class elisions, grace notes passed down from Greek into midwestern twang, the heritage from my grandparents and parents that lived on in me like everything else.

From the outset, the prose tangles with a good deal of counterpoint, elision and italicisation, and gets more hectic as the novel proceeds.

The elision of medial consonants, so marked in these Marquesan instances, is no less common both in Gaelic and the Lowland Scots.