One n or two in cuneate?
stress-doubleCuneate is stressed on its first syllable, and doubling a letter after it is a real English habit, just not one this word ever picked up.
heard ascunneate
spelledcuneate
saidKYOO-nee-ayt
One. cuneate.
The stress does sit on the syllable before this n, and after a stressed vowel English doubles consonants all the time. But the vowel here is long, and long vowels do not take a doubled consonant after them. Compare tuning against tunning.
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