> Note that what appears to be a double "f"   
   > in "hufferus".  That's really an f at the   
   > end of "huf" (hoof), and a separate one at   
   > the beginning of "fer" (iron).  Except for   
   > compound words like that, you'll never see   
   > a double letter in an Esperanto word!   
      
   I might have been a little sloppy in how I said that.  You can, push together   
   particles,  and get for example the "dictionary form" (infinitive) letter"i"   
   at the end of a verb, right after a root that already ends in an I, such as in   
   kopii, to copy.  The root is kopi, and we get all the usual parts of speech   
   and tenses, etc., like kopio (a copy),  mi kopias (I copy), vi kopios (you   
   will copy), ktp.   
      
   But glomming on all those endings, like noun marker, verb tense, and so on, is   
   pretty much like pushing together whole different words or roots.  No one   
   particle, in isolation, is going to have a double letter.  That's a standrard   
   rule of esperanto word formation: you'll never have to wonder whether to   
   double a letter -- if it's not two different things pushed together, it's   
   never doubled,  So spelling is a snap, it's always spelled exactly the way it   
   sounds.   
      
   There are not a lot of spelling bees in Esperantio! (Esperantoland).  But   
   don't worry, there are lots of other dandy games.   
      
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