Eli5 What determines when a word will have two of the same letters next to each other?

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Words like boot, feet, wall, Morrison, etc

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With the consonants, good luck. I have no more clue than you do.

With the vowels? Beet and bet sound very different. Took and tok sound different. Vowels get doubled to change their sound from short to long.

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