In some common words that historically had long vowels, silent no longer has its usual lengthening effect. For example, the in "come" (as compared to in "cone") and in "done" (as compared to in "dome"). This is especially common in some words that historically had instead of , such as "give" and "love"; in Old English, became when it appeared between two vowels (OE "giefan, lufu"), while a geminated lost its doubling to yield in that position. This also applies to a large class of words with the adjective suffix ', such as "captive" (where, again, the is not lengthened, unlike in "hive"), that originally had ' in French.