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Title: Re: CC
Post by: Adron on February 20, 2004, 01:01 PM
Quote from: iago on February 18, 2004, 08:03 PM
"Ackumulator" looks swedish - you mean "Accumulator".

Hmm, what are the rules for cc vs ck in english?
Title: Re: CC
Post by: iago on February 20, 2004, 02:01 PM
As far as I know, ck only goes on the end of words, or on compound words (backwards).  Most of the time it's cc,though.
Title: Re: CC
Post by: Adron on February 20, 2004, 02:10 PM
Compound words including things like loccer and soccer? :P
Title: Re: CC
Post by: K on February 20, 2004, 02:21 PM
Quote from: Adron on February 20, 2004, 02:10 PM
Compound words including things like loccer and soccer? :P
Close  ;)
Compound words are words made up of two different words.

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Title: Re: CC
Post by: Adron on February 20, 2004, 02:31 PM
Quote from: K on February 20, 2004, 02:21 PM
Quote from: Adron on February 20, 2004, 02:10 PM
Compound words including things like loccer and soccer? :P
Close  ;)
Compound words are words made up of two different words.

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Ah, OK. So the correct spleling is loccer then?
Title: Re: CC
Post by: hismajesty on February 20, 2004, 02:36 PM
Nope, it's locker, everything in English has an exception. :)
Title: Re: CC
Post by: j0k3r on February 20, 2004, 03:52 PM
Quote from: hismajesty on February 20, 2004, 02:36 PM
Nope, it's locker, everything in English has an exception. :)
Replace English with Everything.
Title: Re: CC
Post by: K on February 20, 2004, 03:57 PM
You could argue that "locker" is short for "lock her" because that's what you do to lockers.  :)
Title: Re: CC
Post by: Tuberload on February 20, 2004, 04:39 PM
It is the word Lock with the suffix er.

-er, -or
Noun: person or thing that does something

So it would be similar to iago's rule of compound words.
Title: Re: CC
Post by: iago on February 20, 2004, 07:48 PM
Yeah, ck is at the end of lock, and -er is a suffix.
Title: Re: CC
Post by: Hazard on February 20, 2004, 10:20 PM
English blows.