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is it ageing or aging?

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gemmiegoatlegs · 12/01/2009 20:30

my spellchecker likes both

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MakemineaGandT · 12/01/2009 20:33

with the e

Bink · 12/01/2009 20:35

Funnily enough I think they have discrete [note apt use of frequently misused word, just for the delectation of we pedants] meanings, & one ("aging") is intransitive, & means becoming older, & the other ("ageing") is transitive & means what wearing red latex leggings does for your given matron.

gemmiegoatlegs · 12/01/2009 20:47

Aging it is then. Thanks!

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