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No. It's two m's.There is no general rule.panel has one n. flannel has two n's. These rhyming words should both take the same pattern! The least often doubled are h, j, k, q, v, w, x, y. It would be a rare word that contained a doubling of one of these consonants.In the case of...

Chaoss, if you look at Webster's Collegiate (the printed dictionary I happen to use), for example, you'll see that it does not have entries for all words having common prefixes. There is simply not space to accommodate all of them, so it merely includes lists of the more common words under...

1. "Worse" is the comparative of "bad" while "worst" is the superlative. bad-worse-the worst His new movie is worse than his last. Your cooking is getting worse! (compared to before) Among his movies, the newest one is the worst. This is the worst of all! 2. I'm reproducing Taiwandave's post...

There have been a number of recent questions concerning when to use hypens. The following is an excerpt from The Economist magazine's style guide. © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2004 Use hyphens for: 1. FRACTIONS (whether nouns or adjectives): two-thirds, four-fifths, one-sixth, etc. 2....