I'll take that "unsayable" in the sense of ugly, unpleasant, or disagreeable, and the phenomenon therefore as a common haplology. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED.] Reference
He's saying that gingerly is, basically and traditionally, an adjective, and the adverbial use results as a haplology of the derived form gingerlyly. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: GINGER(LY).] Reference
As the Grandmaster of the Spoken Word, she was versed in many secret methods of power, including the bildungsroman form of twisting moral identities and the calculated use of haplology and edulcoration. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
Our language is full of lazy pronunciations - dropping syllables - so that the practice has a name: haplology. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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