Double Consonants (was Re: "Ob" prefix; repeated C (Was: Re: JanÃ

> Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> > unnamed vs unaimed
> > bookcase vs bookie
> > rat-trap vs ratty

Ph. D. wrote:

> Many bank holding companies have
> added "Bancorp" to their names. Again, this is
> intended to be read "Bank Corp."

Just of curiosity: Do you consider that in these cases you should
pronounce two plosions or just a long consonant? In my southern
German dialect which is sensitive to consonant length, we would
naturally lengthen the consonants in similar cases, but I don't know
how this works in a language like English that doesn't have
distinctive consonant length.

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