{"id":25490,"date":"2023-01-29T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25490"},"modified":"2023-01-29T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T21:05:57","slug":"an-example-of-how-quick-easy-a-computer-makes-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25490","title":{"rendered":"How to add the -ing when the last letter is a vowel. META: An example of how quick & easy a computer makes things…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So while reading an article about some USA politics thing, I stumbled across this passage (the important part highlighted; the story itself is not the point here…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve always wondered how to make the -ing suffix? work correctly with words end in a vowel. Like “office” becomes “officeing?” or “officing?”, but both look awkward (Chrome spell checker sez the former is wrong and the latter is a possible correction.). The latter is acceptable with the sorta-vowel “y”, so “pinkying” locks ok, if even a word. This apostrophe usage, dropping the vowel (offic’ing) above is interesting. But is it correct English spelling or grammar. What do style guides show?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

META: The easy part is it took ~1 second to capture that screen snip, 15 seconds to add the yellow & red highlights, 20 seconds to make a new blog entry, The ~1 minute to add the first sentence and upload the screen snip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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