reduplication
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What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?
From Time Magazine Archive
We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."
From Time Magazine Archive
The reduplication of the consonant after a vowel, as in spotted, torrent, is in most cases but an orthographical expedient.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Double consonants rare.—It cannot be too clearly understood that in words like pitted, stabbing, massy, &c., there is no real reduplication of the sounds of t, b, and s, respectively.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
