Due to Japanese pronunciation rules and its mora-based phonology, many words take a significant amount of time to pronounce. For example, a one-syllable word in a language such as English ("brake") often becomes several syllables when pronounced in Japanese (in this case, "burēki" (), which amounts to four moras). The Japanese language, therefore, contains many abbreviated and contracted words, and there is a strong tendency to shorten words. This also occurs with "gairaigo" words. For example, "remote control", when transcribed in Japanese, becomes "rimōto kontorōru" (), but this has then been simplified to "rimokon" (). For another example, the transcribed word for "department store" is "depātomento sutoa" () but has since been shortened to "depāto" (). Clipped compounds, such as "wāpuro" () for "word processor", are common. "Karaoke" (), a combination of the Japanese word "kara" "empty" and the clipped form, "oke", of the English loanword "orchestra" (J. "ōkesutora" ), is a clipped compound that has entered the English language. Japanese ordinarily takes the first part of a foreign word, but in some cases the second syllable is used instead; notable examples from English include and .