| 21. | This is why double consonants are usually retained from original spelling when their pronunciation is not normally geminated.
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| 22. | The Ratak and Ralik dialects differ phonetically in how they deal with stems that begin with double consonants.
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| 23. | One must remember not to split double consonants : Bambari, for example, must be pronounced ba-mba-ri, not bam-ba-ri.
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| 24. | Doubled consonants are pronounced longer :.
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| 25. | In general in German, long stressed vowels are followed by single consonants, and short stressed vowels by double consonants.
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| 26. | Determining which double consonants are assimilated depends on the point of articulation of the first consonant in the pair:
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| 27. | IN WORDS ENDING IN DOUBLE CONSONANTS, the second consonant is silent, so that " Working " becomes " Workin,"
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| 28. | However, because consonant length is no longer contrastive, doubled consonants are purely an orthographical device to indicate vowel length.
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| 29. | The romanization or transliteration of the sound of each Japanese word produces the misleading impression of a doubled consonant.
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| 30. | The German spelling reform of 1996 abolished the rule that compound words with triple consonants coalesce them into double consonants.
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