Bridget opined one of my pet peeves - 'Jewl-ry' (i won't even *mention* my annoyance at the further bastardization of jewelry, as in "jewlery

For many of us outside the US, "jewelry" is itself a bastardisation of the word we use "jewellery". Whatever the antonym of epenthesis is (ellision or contraction, perhaps), your "jewelry" may be considered a specimen thereof.