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Originally Posted by ewalling
What (mildly) bugs me is the horrendous misspelling of 'relic' + 'ed' or 'ing'. English has a rule for this. With words like 'panic' or 'picnic' that have the hard 'c' sound as opposed to the one that sounds like an 's', as in 'ice,' we add a 'k' to them to retain that hard 'c'. Therefore, 'panic' + 'ed' becomes 'panicked' and 'picnic' + 'ing' becomes 'picnicking.' If the 'k' were not added, these words would logically be pronounced with the soft 's' like sound that 'c' sometimes has.
So why on earth do people spell 'relic' + 'ed' as 'reliced'?? It sounds as though someone has a mattress and is putting the bugs (the lice) back into it! "Hang on, I just need to re-lice this mattress!"
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Interesting although it does not bother me
I mean personally it seems like "I like the sound of a micked guitar" just reads awkward compared to "I like a mic'ed guitar"