Maybe focussing is acceptable, but I hate it. I've been seeing it much more frequently than my preferred spelling. If it bears stress on the first syllable, how come the last consonant is so often doubled? Is it like British travelling and traveller, etc.?
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focusing vs. focussing
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focusing vs. focussing
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What's with you and baloney now, Tim?
Intervocalic s in English is normally pronounced voiceless anyway, I don't think people feel compelled to adding an extra s in basic, house, greasy (I know some folks pronounced the s like a z here), and there are even cases of double s pronounced like z, e.g. possessive.
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Intervocalic s in English is normally pronounced voiceless anyway, I don't think people feel compelled to adding an extra s in basic, house, greasy (I know some folks pronounced the s like a z here), and there are even cases of double s pronounced like z, e.g. possessive.
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Re: focusing vs. focussing
I'm with you, o meu irmão.Maybe focussing is acceptable, but I hate it.
There's a sign on one lane of Canal Street in New Orleans that reads "Busses Only". It'll be interesting to go by there in a few days and see if the sign was blown away by Katrina and if so, whether they replaced it with the same spelling.
(Much an eye-catcher as that one is it doesn't hold a candle to the one I recently saw in Texas: "Speed Fines Dobles")
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Re: focusing vs. focussing
Unless they're talking about an electrical power buss or a computer buss, or perhaps that's the "Kiss-and-ride" lane for a subway system.. . .
There's a sign on one lane of Canal Street in New Orleans that reads "Busses Only".
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(Much an eye-catcher as that one is it doesn't hold a candle to the one I recently saw in Texas: "Speed Fines Dobles")
That second sign did get your attention, didn't it?
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