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Comparative and superlative form of new #1 (permalink) Sat Apr 25, 2009 21:40 pm   Comparative and superlative form of new		  
Newer and the newest or newwer and the newwest?
If an adjective ends with a consonant and if there is a vowel before the consonant , the last letter of the adjective is written double.If so, is it newwer and the newwest?If not,why?
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Comparative and superlative form of new #2 (permalink) Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:02 am   Comparative and superlative form of new		  
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'W' is not a consonant sound here.

New, newer, newest
Slow, slower, slowest
Gay, gayer, gayest
etc.
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Thank you! #3 (permalink) Wed Apr 29, 2009 21:55 pm   Thank you!		  
We have no 'W' sound in Turkish and I always thought that w is a consonant.Thanks for your explanation.
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Thank you! #4 (permalink) Fri May 01, 2009 18:49 pm   Thank you!		  
I always thought that w is a consonant.

It is, but not in this instance.
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