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- combatting or combating | WordReference Forums
This means that in UK (Standard) English the spelling 'combating' is correct, as per the OED (which I use as the standard, because it's the nearest thing English has to a standard) Individual speakers may have their way with those three syllables, but there is a rationale for the single t
- combating combatting | WordReference Forums
It's most definitely combating in AmE and combatting in BrE As mentioned before by several users, there's the usually very useful 'SOS'-rule (which says that a word that ends in 'consonant, vowel, consonant' sees its last consonant doubled when forming a past participle or a continuous tense)
- Pronunciation combating - WordReference Forums
combating is the AE spelling combatting is the BE spelling They are both pronounced the same: "kom bat ing"
- Double Consonant in Comparative | WordReference Forums
Hello, So why in many examples we don't have double consonant? For example Slow --> Slower (with the above rule we should have Slowwer) or Cheap --> Cheaper (with the above rule we should have Cheapper)
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