How do you spell modding?

[DavidG]

Under the heading of useless polls what is the accepted way to spell modding? I ask because I often search "Modding" and then again under "moding" So what is it? One 'd' ot two?

[PvK]

Two D's, because one D would be pronounced like "mode-ing".

PvK

[Ragnarok]

Ok, so who is the english prof? lol!

[Kamog]

So far nobody thinks it's spelled "moding". Spelled, speled, spelt? Nah, must be "spelled". Notice how if you keep staring at a word, it begins to look strange and you become unsure of how it's spelled? Or maybe it's just me.

I agree with PvK, it is pronounced "modd - ing", not "mode -ing", since modding is an abbreviated form of "modifying". Even though "modifying" has only one d, we need the two d's to preserve the pronunciation.

[Fyron]

I always try to vote for the nonsense option in polls if there is one.

[geoschmo]

I voted for one D because, well it looks right to me. And one D is more efficent than two D's. Since neither is a real word anyway the idea is we are making up a word so we can be lazy and shorten the correct term, modifying. Modding is only two letters shorter then modifying. Since we are making it up anyway we might as well save the third letter.

[ December 23, 2002, 01:17: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Skulky]

I looked in my elvish dictionary and it wasn't there so it must not be a word

[ December 23, 2002, 01:22: Message edited by: Skulky ]

[PvK]

Well, I think it's better to make a new word not have an irregular pronunciation, where possible.

Also, one can check how people are using the word currently. A simple unscientific method is to use an Internet search engine. Google finds about 6850 instances of "moding", including "MODing" and a different gaming term, which has to do with role-playing (see THIS LINK ).

Google finds about 235,000 cases of "modding", however.

PvK

[ December 23, 2002, 03:00: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Skulky]

contrary to my previous beliefs, the evidence is decisive. Modding is a word.

[Suicide Junkie]

Ah, now I am curious as to how the RP "Moding" is pronounced!