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can someone explain why the participle of die (as in death) is dying instead of dieing?

Posted by zork Jan 17 '14, 10:19

it's not like tool and die type of dieing is so used that it would be confusing. in fact, we could switch up the two spellings.

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a lot of English spelling is just random historical stuff. -- nm - loosilu Jan 17, 10:21 4
- does anyone even know what the historical story for this one is? I mean how could that happen in the first place? -- nm - zork Jan 17, 10:24 1
  - well, it comes from Old to Middle English, and is influenced by Nordic language factors from those accursed Vikings who came over and mingled and - i'm not dead yet ! Jan 17, 10:37
- Lier -- nm - Bacon Jan 17, 10:22 1
  - Lyre! -- nm - Beryllium Jan 17, 10:28

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