Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Jumpping

Every time I write 'jump' on the board and talk about adding -ing, one of the students in my class puts on a serious face and assuredly tells me that there are two p's. Each time I tell him that it's not the case, but I know that he won't be convinced.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Irrrittattinngg.

Anonymous said...

Logical: The 'u' is pronounced like the 'u' in cup, supper, mutter, and puppy. In all those cases the following consonant is repeated. If the 'u' were pronounced like the 'u' in 'dupe' or 'super', then the single 'p' would make sense.