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A brachyology is a figure of speech that is an abbreviated expression.

Examples:

• the omission of "good" in "good morning"

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[edit] References

• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920). Greek Grammar. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 674–677. ISBN 0-674-36250-0.