Excerpt from A Dictionary of the English Language: Compiled for the Use of Common Schools in the United States
When a verb ends in a single consonant accented, the consonant is doubled in the parti siple and some other derivatives, thus, Writ, admitting, attainable - abet, abetted. So also in monosyllables, as pen, flaming, d.
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