I'm wondering why we have double letters in words that make the same sound as if it were a single letter. For example apple
. The pp
makes a p
sound, and sound the same as if the word was spelt aple
.
A few more examples:
- sell
- hill
- fuss
- watt
- happy
- sunny
- blossom
I've also notices that the double letters make the same sound as if it were a single letter is not entirely true across the board – especially if the repeated letter is a vowel, for example;
- feet
- hoop
- teen
- spoon
- beetle
Why is this? Why do some letters have double letters when having a single letter makes the same sound. It seems to only be for words above 3 characters.
From what I've seen, vowels need the double letter to make another sound, but consonants don't.
Best Answer
I'm not a native speaker but I see it this way: