Ectasis is an expansion or the lengthening of syllable from short to long.
As I understood its meaning, I think it means that when a short word is changed to long, mostly you have to add another vowel to it.
For example:
con: con + e = cone
hat: hat + e = hate
The resulting word is different.
Again, I encountered this word through playing scrabble. A girl named Linda made this word. It was a bingo, meaning 50 bonus points (because she has used all her 7 lettered-tiles in one word) have been added to her initial score.
As I understood its meaning, I think it means that when a short word is changed to long, mostly you have to add another vowel to it.
For example:
con: con + e = cone
hat: hat + e = hate
The resulting word is different.
Again, I encountered this word through playing scrabble. A girl named Linda made this word. It was a bingo, meaning 50 bonus points (because she has used all her 7 lettered-tiles in one word) have been added to her initial score.
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