{"id":109,"date":"2014-04-01T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T00:42:58","slug":"the-difference-between-ageing-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-ageing-and-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between ageing and aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I recall correctly, I was taught in primary school to <em>drop the \u2018e\u2019 and add \u2018ing\u2019<\/em>. This works for words like <em>bake<\/em> (baking), <em>file<\/em> (filing) and <em>slide<\/em> (sliding). However, just as the English language is prone to do, there are exceptions. How does one spell the past participle and gerund of <em>age<\/em>? Is it <em>ageing<\/em> or <em>aging<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Like many instances in the English language where there are two conflicting spellings of the same word, it\u2019s often down to location or nationality.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aging<\/em> is the spelling most used in Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ageing<\/em> is the spelling commonly accepted everywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s not uncommon to find <em>aging<\/em> used in Australia. That just goes to show how globalised the world is getting!<\/p>\n<p>While I personally use British English, depending on where you live, that might not be acceptable. If you live somewhere in North America, stick with your national spelling guidelines and use <em>aging<\/em>. However, if you live in another English-speaking country, British English is the more commonly accepted form of spelling, therefore, use <em>ageing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But remember\u2014above all else, be consistent! Choose one spelling and stick with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But don&#8217;t you just drop the &#8216;e&#8217; and add &#8216;ing&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}