Improve your writing and pronunciation with this explanation of double consonants! In a simple word, the vowel is pronounced with a short sound. If we want to pronounce a word with a long vowel sound, we write the letter "e" at the end of the word. EXAMPLES: hat - A simple word with a short "a" sound. hate - The "e" turns the "a" into a long sound. kit - short kite - long cut - short cute - long hop - short hopped - short hope - long hoped - long can - short canned - short canning - short cane - long caning - long Pope - long popped - short big (adjective) - short bigger (comparative) - short the biggest (superlative) - short Superman (1 p) - long Supperman (2 ps) - short write - long written (past participle) - short