Which preposition to use with duplication
Delafield's many organizations should tell the whole town what they are trying to do, so that unnecessary duplication of plan and purpose may first be discovered and then done away with.
But there is a duplication in the fifty cent seats, where one may take his pick as to where he wants to sit.
Final l, as may be seen by Rule 8th, admits not now of a duplication like this; but, by the exceptions to Rule 4th, it is frequently doubled when no other consonant would be; as in travelling, grovelling; unless, (contrary to the opinion of Lowth, Walker, and Webster,) we will have fillipping, gossipping, and worshipping, to be needful exceptions also.
With all this duplication on the one hand, and absentee-control on the other, Main Street was a street of underlingsclerks and salespeople and delivery men.