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Why is running spelled with two n's?

Anonymous

∙ 13y ago

Updated: 10/25/2022

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

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∙ 13y ago

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