Timeline for Why do we write "fixing" instead of "fixxing"?
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| Nov 11, 2020 at 7:37 | comment | added | Luke Hutchison | It's never doubled... unless it is. For example "exxed out"; "anti-vaxxer". These seem to be accepted alternative spellings of "exed out" and "anti-vaxer", and the former somehow read better with less phonetic ambiguity than the latter. However "all my exes" always uses the singular 'x'. | |
| Nov 9, 2020 at 19:45 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | I was brought up to avoid double-Ws, and would rather write bow-wow, glow-worm, pow-wow with either a hyphen or a space. Some pairs of words should not be compounded. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 15, 2018 at 21:39 | history | edited | herisson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2018 at 21:36 | history | edited | user 66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2018 at 21:02 | vote | accept | Mahdi | ||
| Mar 15, 2018 at 20:48 | history | answered | user 66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |