Timeline for Is it "damping" or "dampening" when referring to sound?
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| Feb 26, 2023 at 23:51 | comment | added | Lambie | For the verbs: You dampen a cloth by wetting it but you damp sound or fire by adding a noise barrier to the first and something to reduce the strength of the fire in the second. The sound thing is definitely to damp, not dampen in this particular, contemporary case, in my humble opinion as a writer. | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 21:10 | comment | added | John Lawler | Could be either. Damp by itself is used as a zero-derivation verb meaning either inchoative become damp or causative make damp. The old but still occasionally productive -en causative/inchoative suffix (as in whiten, deaden, redden, shorten, ...) can do the same job, as the answers have pointed out. You pays your money and you takes your choice, like most things in English morphology. | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 20:46 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 18, 2022 at 7:38 | answer | added | Jason Swan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 22:43 | answer | added | Daniel Immel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 23, 2020 at 21:36 | answer | added | Thomas Aquinas | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 21, 2018 at 4:51 | answer | added | Horrido | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 0:34 | answer | added | Paul Dyson | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 20:02 | answer | added | Don Jewett | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 14, 2012 at 16:25 | vote | accept | devios1 | ||
| May 11, 2012 at 23:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/201088049604595714 | ||
| May 11, 2012 at 22:59 | answer | added | Liz | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 11, 2012 at 22:47 | answer | added | zpletan | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 11, 2012 at 22:25 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 11, 2012 at 21:56 | history | asked | devios1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |