Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

Wed Jul 19 04:20:30 EDT 2017

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> * the final consonant of a single-syllable word is doubled only if the
>>> consonant is "k", "l" or "s" ("kick", "kill", "kiss")
>>>> ... or "f" ("stiff") or "z" ("buzz")
>> or sometimes "r" ("burr"), or "t" ("butt").

Those are exceptions.
The ortographic principles are being forgotten. Hence:
 rev - revved (instead of *reve - *reved)
 savvy (instead of *savy)
 fulfill (Am., instead of fulfil)
 wellbeing (instead of *welbeing)
Marko