Sentence examples for gemination from inspiring English sources

Long consonants are quite common and are due to both gemination (doubling) and assimilation (i.e., when two adjacent but different consonants become identical in pronunciation, as with /b/ + /p/ in the English word "cupboard").

Some languages lack one set of semivowels, and, in some, gemination (doubling) or clustering of vowels occurs.

Before the 2nd century bce, consonant gemination (doubling of sounds) was not shown in orthography but was probably current in speech.