ok my little brother is having a grammar problem and i really want to help him, here is the problem... for his homework he has to find a double constanant for each letter of the alphabet (e.g)
E= seen (the double ee in seen)
B= rabbit (the double bb in rabbit)
O= soon (the double oo in soon)
etc it says in his jotter that there are only 7 constanants that cant do this (e.g)
V V
K K
W W
X X
the problem is we have found 8 and are finding it impossible to narrow it down to 7.
thanks!
2007-01-17 05:49:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
The people who give bookkeeper as an example are wrong. In phonetics, you look for double consonants in syllables not in compund nouns.
And you say you're looking for double consonants but you have given the examples of "ee" and "oo" which are vowels.
For "vv" my example is "savvy". Does this help?
2007-01-17 07:28:30 · answer #1 · answered by Earthling 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A double K or KK, exists in the English Language if you include the 80s rock band Dokken. This is a Proper Noun, has an entry in Wikipedia, and is something cute your brother can show to your teacher. This does not help with your overall question, but is something to consider.
2007-01-17 14:06:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jason C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are examples of double V in English, like 'revving' (e.g. "He was revving his engine.")
For double K, you have 'bookkeeping', although this is essentially a juxtaposition of two words: 'book' and 'keeping'. Likewise for 'bookkeeper'. There's also Trekkie, although I've not seen it in any dictionary yet. And, of course, the breakfast cereal Brekkies.
That leaves double H, double J, double Q, double W, double X and double Y.
2007-01-17 14:28:10 · answer #3 · answered by deedsallan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a Leichhardt River in Australia named after Ludwig Leichhardt. There is a modern tendency to reduce hyphens in words where they are not really necessary. I have seen "bowwow" for the dog bark and "bowwaves"in respected journals.
2007-01-17 17:31:40 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If its constanants only then i think its vv, kk, ww, xx, hh, jj, and qq.
I'm not completely if it excluded vowels or what exactly you were asking for but those were the ones i found. Hope it helped!
2007-01-17 14:02:01 · answer #5 · answered by lily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are the ones I could think of (6):
h
j
q
w
x
y
Bubbles was close but u is not a consonant.
2007-01-17 14:15:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are saying you can't do it with k you are wrong...bookkeeper.
In fact, that has 3 set of double letters in a row.
2007-01-17 13:58:54 · answer #7 · answered by starting over 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
give us the 8 it will make it easier to help
2007-01-17 13:53:52 · answer #8 · answered by Lucy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 7 are:
H
J
Q
U
W
X
Y
2007-01-17 13:56:37 · answer #9 · answered by Nickynackynoo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
b- rubber
c- soccer
d- ladder
f - fluff
g- logger
h-
j-
k-
l- roller
m- summer
n- runner
p- supper
q-
r- error
s- lesson
t- stutter
v- savvy
w-
x-
y-
z- jazz
thats all I can come up with
2007-01-17 14:02:11 · answer #10 · answered by Coodles 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋