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Jay, thank you for clearing up the Shavian (hi jheem!) pronunciation of your name.
How about "elision," or is that too broad?
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Apocope, syncope. I knew it was one of the -copes. 
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I meant to say thanks for the suggestion jheem. It pointed us in the right direction.
“Elision” may indeed be the word I'm trying to remember, AnnaStropic. It certainly seems to fit the criteria. But for some reason it still doesn’t sound quite right.
It may be that I have another word stuck in my head that I also can’t remember. When looking up the word apocope I came across the word aphaeresis, and thought it sounded very close to the word I was trying to remember. But, of course, aphaeresis is not the right word either. I guess that’s what I get for taking a Rhetoric class, a Linguistics class, and a History of the English Language class at the same time – too many terms all at once.
Although I sold the book, I know I still have my notes. I may be able to find them and find the term there.
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When it comes to toes, the ais have it.
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Tell me something. Do I get credit for aa as being the shortest two-syllable word? It is pronounced 'ah ah', as I mentioned up at the beginning of the thread.
I would like a very pretty blue ribbon, please, with a golden volcano in the center. Thank you very much. If you can throw in some lava that lights up before falling into the blue satin sea of the ribbon, I think that would be a nice touch.
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How about:
Io (pronounced "EE oh" though "EYE oh," is also acceptable) was the daughter of Inachus, a river god.
It is also the name of a moth, and thus not capitalized, so there would be no argument about io's being a proper noun.
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TEd,
Io is the word of which I was thinking too. In addition to everything you mentioned, it is also one of Jupiter’s moons.
Wordwind,
The challenge was to find more than one. Nevertheless, I think together you and TEd have achieved that goal. Your aa-oozing, blue satin sea, golden volcano ribbon is in the mail. (Allow 6 – 10 weeks for delivery. Prize may be subject to tax.)
TEd, what would you like?
dxb
Since all the pronunciations I’ve found for ai show it to be a one syllable word, I don’t think we can accept it.
Has anyone come up with a one-syllable word with more than nine letters?
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I think the smallest two-syllable word would have to be "lepton"... or maybe "proton". The longest one-syllable word is probably "space".  "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." -Tom Lehrer
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