Re: Speced or Specced?
- From: Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:36:19 GMT
On 10 Dec 2005 15:52:40 -0800, "ion" <ionFreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> If a feature was defined in a specification, would
> you say it had been speced, or that it had been
> specced?
> Google returns 336K for 'speced'
"Speced" looks like it should be pronounced "speesed",
rhyming with "released".
> and only 117K hits for 'specced,' but
> the latter seems more correct to me. We wouldn't say
> 'specified.'
Google hits and dictionaries aside, I think it should be
"specked", conforming to the pattern of
mimic, mimicked, mimicking
frolic, frolicked, frolicking
havoc, havocked, havocking
magic, magicked, magicking
mosaic, mosaicked, mosaicking
panic, panicked, panicking
physic, physicked, physicking
picnic, picnicked, picnicking
shellac, shellacked, shellacking
traffic, trafficked, trafficking
But then there's
zinc, zinced or zincked, zincing or zincking
"Zinced" looks like it should be pronounced "zinsed",
rhyming with "convinced".
"Medevac" has the alternative spelling "medivac", and they
both have alternatives "-ced" and "-cked", resulting in the
following list of tense forms:
medevaced also medivaced or
medevacked or medivacked ;
medevacing also medivacing or
medevacking or medivacking
All of those without the "k" look like they should have the
long vowel, "a" as in "faced" and "facing".
A wild-card search in the _11th Collegiate_ finds only one
word ending in "-cced": "sicced", the command to a dog. It
has
sicced also sicked
siccing also sicking
The verb "specked" meaning "applied a specification" is not
unheard of: Google finds some hits on it. "Specked" has,
of course, a completely different additional sense, but some
of the Google hits are for the sense we're discussing.
A couple of examples:
( http://tinyurl.com/9hrbd )
Check with the printer and find out how the job
was specked (the specification used).
( http://tinyurl.com/bmvcy )
They ultimately specked the unit by stating the
size and length of the lint allowed.
If I ever have occasion to write the past tense of "spec",
which now seems quite unlikely, I will write "specked".
--
Bob Cunningham, Southern California, USofA
Let's hear it for "like" as a conjunction!
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