{"id":46615,"date":"2023-10-23T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46615"},"modified":"2023-10-23T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:16:01","slug":"english-adding-a-letter-before-certain-endings-for-certain-words-mimic-panic-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-adding-a-letter-before-certain-endings-for-certain-words-mimic-panic-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"English: adding a letter before certain endings, for certain words: mimic, panic, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions a realization.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe other day I read the word &#8220;mimicking.&#8221; When I went to write the verb present tense form, I wrote it as &#8220;mimick.&#8221; The spell-checker complained, so I changed it to &#8220;mimic.&#8221; The spell-checker was happy.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt seems that with mimic, panic, and frolic, one adds k before ing or ed, to keep the c from going soft. I might have known that at one time:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/546550\/what-rule-governs-panic-panicking-and-why-would-it-apply-to-all-ic-verbs#:~:text=If%20the%20verb%20ends%20in,ing%2C%20and%20also%20%2Der.\">english.stackexchange<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about English: the tutor mentions a realization. The other day I read the word &#8220;mimicking.&#8221; When I went to write the verb present tense form, I wrote it as &#8220;mimick.&#8221; The spell-checker complained, so I changed it to &#8220;mimic.&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-adding-a-letter-before-certain-endings-for-certain-words-mimic-panic-etc\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: adding a letter before certain endings, for certain words: mimic, panic, etc.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46617,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46615\/revisions\/46617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}