Last week, we started discussing how double letters make the spellings of some words peculiarly challenging. While some are so intriguing that they feature three double letters, some are simply so ‘naughty’ that they defy formulas. Today, we will conclude the topic by identifying some factors that can guide our handling of the double letters. Watch double letters in affixationIn many cases we have prefixes and suffixes, double letters do surface. The double letters in them are products of prefixation.

Source: Punch January 30, 2024 10:45 UTC