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You don't have your dates right. You are a decade too late. 1985, not 1995. Also, once again, it is TAPED out, not "tapped" out. I am guessing you are not a n
by lproven 4y ago
You don't have your dates right. You are a decade too late.
1985, not 1995.
Also, once again, it is TAPED out, not "tapped" out. I am guessing you are not a native English speaker; these two words have different meanings and pronunciations.
Taped: /teɪpt/ -- rhymes with "aped" or "shaped".
Tapped: /tæpt/ -- rhymes with "apt" or "clapped".
The way to remember this is that the double consonant (here, -pp-) "insulates" the vowel before it from being lengthened or changed by the "-e" after it.
Examples:
kit → kitten, bit → bitten, flat → flattened, net → netted. Same vowel sound in all these pairs.
Compare with:
kit/kite, bit/bite, bat/bate, sat/sate, not/note. All these pairs have different vowel sounds because the E after the consonant changes the vowel before the consonant.