In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, In English, clipping may extend to contraction, which mostly involves the elision of a vowel that is replaced by an apostrophe in writing.
Creation and adoption
According to Hans Marchand, clippings are not coined as words belonging to the core lexicon of a language. An example of apocope in Israeli Hebrew is the word lehit, which derives from להתראות lehitraot, meaning "see you, goodbye".