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Were double consonants pronounced at some period of history?
It depends on whether you're talking about the history of the language as a whole, or the history of specific words now spelled with double consonant letters (such as toboggan and baggage). If you ...
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Were double consonants pronounced at some period of history?
English has around 16-20 vowels (vocalic phonemes) depending on whether you're considering General American or RP or, indeed, other dialects of English.
However, it only has 5 letters typically used ...
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