Originally Posted By: Faldage
 Originally Posted By: The Pook

...as in pool?


Or as in poo(l).

 Originally Posted By: Jean Florian
dropping the 'r' from "celebrate" to now have the word (mispelled) "celebate".


For a legitimate example of a dropped R we have the missing R in 'speak'. This was likely a pronunciation driven phenomenon rather than a scribal error. We see the same thing happening today with 'Febuary', 'liberry', and 'infastructure'.

It remains in 'spruick'.
Actually to correct what I said earlier, I think from memory that elision only refers to vowels disappearing. I can't remember the word for consonants going.