#TodayILearned that shortening rhyming slang so it no longer rhymes (butchers, whistle, etc) is called ‘hemiteleia’ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhym…

_There is a suggestion that Bill Bryson made this up. A footnote on the Wikipedia page says that:

Bryson, a humourist, states that there is a special name given to this omission: “the word that rhymes is almost always dropped… There’s a technical term for this process as well: hemiteleia”. Given that this is a genus of plant species, and appears in no readily available sources as a linguistic term, it is unclear whether the humourist was being humorous, or informative