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Here's an audio of someone pronouncing "penne" in Italian. She's speaking slowly, so you can hear the elongated consonant. Double letters in Italian are always elongated, and it opens up your vowels a little, so you get a bit more of an "eh" sound at the end rather than an "ay." But it's much less a difference in…