Leaf Spelling Dictionary

Two n's before the ending?

stress-doubleDoubling a consonant is how English marks a short stressed vowel. The stressed vowel in emarginate is followed by an r, and nothing else in the word is stressed at all.

heard asemarginnate
spelledemarginate
saidee-MAR-jin-ut

One n: emarginate.

Doubling has landed at the very end of a five-syllable word, four syllables past the stress, where nothing is emphatic enough to justify it.

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