questions from students asking how do I know how to pronounce a word based on

spelling and so this is one of those tips for you and today we're going to

talk about double letters versus single letters so when you see a word that has

a double consonant sound and then um okay I made a mistake here so I just want to

clarify it when you see a double consonant letter it is a short vowel as

opposed to a single consonant letter we are going to have a long vowel so what does that mean

let's go ahead and take a look I use the ER ending so we have some similarities

here just so you can see how this rule works so line one here we have one

consonant sound before the ER so all of those vowels are going to be long and

long vowels are basically the letter name so we have super diner and later

super diner later now here we have two consonant sounds so we know from the

rule that vowel is going to be short and we are going to say supper dinner and

latter

and let me give you a sentence the later choice to avoid the

ladder climb allowed us to enjoy dinner at the super supper diner give it a try

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