Is the middle of cuneate spelled ee?
vowel-digraphCuneate has three vowels in a row after the n, and only two of them get said.
heard ascuneete
spelledcuneate
saidKYOO-nee-ayt
It is a single e: cuneate.
A double e is a reasonable thing to write for a sound this clean. But the e and the a that follow it are two separate syllables in the Latin, ne and a, and the spelling still keeps them apart even though English has more or less run them together.
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