- change-able
- peace-able
- courage-ous
- notice-able
- advantage-ous
- service-able
704. Words with an accented double vowel, or with an accented diphthong, do NOT double a final single consonant.
- stoop-ed
- loud-er
- meet-ing
- roar-ing
- sweet-en
- join-ing
705. CEI. EI regularly follows c-.
- conceive
- ceiling
- deceive
- conceit
- receive
- deceit
- perceive
- receipt
Observe also: either, neither, leisure, seize, weird, their, counterfeit, foreign.
706. EI occasionally spells the sound of long i and of long a.
- height
- sleight
- weigh
- freight
- neighbor
707. IE regularly follows all consonants except c-.