Generally - there are always exceptions in English - vowels followed by double consonants indicate a short vowel sound. If you saw the word "runings", you would expect a long vowel sound, as in rune.
Another example:
coping
copping
You mean why the word 'Finnish' has two n's in it? That's just how the word is spelled...
"Banana".
like banks say fran-ks. but its just spelled as francs. It is pronounced as fran-ks.
The driving distance between the two is about 142 road miles.
The present continuous form of "run" is spelled "running".
sprint
Two. The real question is why.
The accented syllable of sustenance is the first syllable - /SUS-ten-ance/ (spelled in IPA as /ˈsʌstənəns/)
The word is spelt as you have done in the question.
Haha yes you can...my name is Brooklynn with two N's
embarrassed (the same way you spelled it!)
There are about 9.778 miles between Halifax, NS and Sackville NS.