why is the english language perfectly happy geminating any consonant by just writing it twice, *except* for c and k, where either one is written geminated as ck
any time a doubled ⟨c⟩ or ⟨k⟩ appears in standard english, it's either: a loanword (e.g. gnocci), a compound (e.g. bookkeeper), or two ⟨c⟩s pronounced differently (e.g. accept, pronounced /æksεpt/)
(accolade is perhaps the one exception, though it is also a loanword (though from the 17th century, so it's been here for a while and might not count anymore))
@Felthry ...fascinating!
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travel -> travelled
mar -> marred
sob -> sobbed
grin -> grinned
debug -> debugged
but
magic -> magicked (not *magicced)