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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Yeah, MMM, you're right. I haven't had to write the word for a while, and it's so darn hard to end a word orally with っど. I think in my mind I was thinking about how ベッド is the exception to the rule that Japanese words cannot generally end in っど. I might be willing to extend my linguistic description there to: "Japanese words cannot (or very rarely can) end in an glottal stop followed by a voiced consonant and a vowel."
How many words can we think of that end in っだ／っぢ／っづ／っで／っど／っが／っぎ／っぐ／っ げ／っご／っば／っび／っぶ／っべ／っぼ etc.?
I can only think of ベッド, but there has to be a few (albeit a very few) others.
Edit: I guess, technically, only p,t,k, and s can be doubled in native Japanese words anyway (in general?).
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Just a note here. I found it kind of funny during my stay in Osaka that they would pronounce 京都 as 'kyout' with no final vowel, and even トロント as 'Toront' despite my attempts to correct that. Yet if I said 'Scott' instead of スコット, they had no clue who I was talking about.