Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!microsof!fluke!ssc-vax!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!unc!tim From: tim@unc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Sickning, sickning, sickning... Message-ID: <5492@unc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Jul-83 22:31:04 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.5492 Posted: Sun Jul 3 22:31:04 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 01:35:39 EDT References: aplvax.151 Lines: 15 Personally, I think illiterates, that is, people who understand their native tongue so little as to spell "sickening" with the absurd "sickning", are sickening. You are all doomed to burn in Hell forever. "Sickening" obviously comes from the root "sick", with the suffix "-en" meaning "to become", and the "-ing" suffix further appended to make the meaning "to cause to become sick". How else would you spell it? Where did you go to school, Antarctica? ______________________________________ The overworked keyboard of Tim Maroney duke!unc!tim (USENET) tim.unc@udel-relay (ARPA) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill