Re Arnold Zwicky's call for examples of 'mo (clip to final unstressed
syllable): I don't have this one, but I do have quite a few more in
my data of Australian clippings:
cockroach > roach (more US; usually cockie in Aus)
Jumpinpin > The Pin (a place in Queensland)
Wollongong > The Gong (a city)
mushrom > shroom
Quaalude > lude
Wallerawang Power station > Wang
Footscray > Scray (suburb of Melbourne)
chrysanthemum > mum (more US: Aus = chrissie)
Mandrax > trax / trex
also
omnibus > bus
Roly Sussex
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