There. Is. No. Rule. That. Cranberry / Unique / Fossilized. Morphemes. Can't. Be. Analyzed.
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Your Facebook groups still do not understand this basic premise: You. Must. Have. Etymological. Evidence. For. The. Morphemes. You. Posit. Even in pumpkin.
"Spelling is so multidimensional," said my friend. "There's grammar here, etymology, lexical phonology, and prosody.""It's everything," I agreed. "Spelling is never just spelling."
Just like with the consonant-<le> pattern, there are common overarching patterns in which words take double consonants and which ones have single medial consonants.