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Posted by Jeff H. on Sun Sep 3 02:31:39 2006, in response to A (dumb) Question on Pronunciation, posted by Alargule on Sat Sep 2 07:52:26 2006. No one ever shortened the double letters to singles when sayingthem, even when there was no corresponding single-letter route (e.g. there was both an A and a AA, E and EE ) People said whatever sounded better. I remember C-C, G-G as almost exclusively said that way, and Double-A, Double-R. Usually L-L but sometimes Double-L. Thanks for an interesting thread. How written things were pronounced is one of those subtle historical details which often gets lost. E.g. in the Brooklyn streetcar system, the PCC cars 1000-1099 were the ten-hundreds, not the one-thousands. |
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