Well, neither, at least not for puppy. That would be written as パピー.
Depends.
In general, you would ignore the fact that it’s a double and just use a regular p sound. In truth, the double p in English doesn’t really signify much as far as the phonetics is concerned.
Consider writing ‘puppy’ vs ‘pupy’; the difference in writing affects how you sound the vowel (which, when you think about it, is kind of weird), but the actual p consonant doesn’t change.
Beyond that, just sound out the word first, and where you sense the ‘p’ is being sounded quite strongly, you could represent that with a small っ, though at the end of the day a lot of this is very subjective.
Katakanization works by pronunciation, not by spelling. Double consonants in English are generally not pronounced as such but a historical orthographical artefact from Germanic open-syllable vowel lengthening, used to indicate a short vowel before them. The difference between “puppa” and “pupa” is the vowel before it, not the consonant.
The standard way to convert it would be “パピー”. Note that this does not always apply and some spelling pronunciations do exist, such as “happy” becoming “ハッピー” not “ハピー”
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Well, neither, at least not for puppy. That would be written as パピー.
Depends.
In general, you would ignore the fact that it’s a double and just use a regular p sound. In truth, the double p in English doesn’t really signify much as far as the phonetics is concerned.
Consider writing ‘puppy’ vs ‘pupy’; the difference in writing affects how you sound the vowel (which, when you think about it, is kind of weird), but the actual p consonant doesn’t change.
Beyond that, just sound out the word first, and where you sense the ‘p’ is being sounded quite strongly, you could represent that with a small っ, though at the end of the day a lot of this is very subjective.
Katakanization works by pronunciation, not by spelling. Double consonants in English are generally not pronounced as such but a historical orthographical artefact from Germanic open-syllable vowel lengthening, used to indicate a short vowel before them. The difference between “puppa” and “pupa” is the vowel before it, not the consonant.
The standard way to convert it would be “パピー”. Note that this does not always apply and some spelling pronunciations do exist, such as “happy” becoming “ハッピー” not “ハピー”