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All words of one syllable ending in with a double vowel before it , have one only at the close ; as mail , sail . Words of one syllable ending in 7 , when compounded , retain but one each ; as , fulfil , skilful . Words of more than one ...
All words of one syllable ending in with a double vowel before it , have one only at the close ; as mail , sail . Words of one syllable ending in 7 , when compounded , retain but one each ; as , fulfil , skilful . Words of more than one ...
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One - syllables ending in a consonant , with a double vowel before it , do not double the consonant in derivatives : as , sleep , sleepy ; troop , trooper . All words of more than one syllable ending in a single consonant , preceded by ...
One - syllables ending in a consonant , with a double vowel before it , do not double the consonant in derivatives : as , sleep , sleepy ; troop , trooper . All words of more than one syllable ending in a single consonant , preceded by ...
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| Title | "You Ask!--I'll Tell!": A Condensed Encyclopedia of All Things of Every Day Life ... |
| Editor | Edwin Chesterman |
| Publisher | Chesterman & Webster, 1873 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2005 |
| Length | 442 pages |
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