![]() If a word ends with the consonant plus “y”, then change the “y” to “i” before adding a suffix except “ing” like parties, heavier, largest, married and happily.There are exceptions like changeable, noticeable, enforceable, courageous, outrageous, manageable and traceable. If the suffix begins with a vowel, then drop the silent “e” as in enforcing and aging. If a word ends in silent “e” and the suffix begins with a consonant, then keep the vowel as in the words hateful and awesome.If the stress is on the final syllable, the “s” is doubled as in address, unless and discuss. When there are two or more syllable words that end with s and if the first syllable is stressed, it is spelled with one “s”: litmus, circus, fungus, bonus, crisis and crocus.Exceptions to this rule include the words: pal, yes, this, gas, bus, us, if and of. The letters “l”, “f”, “s” and “z” are doubled after a single vowel at the end of a short word like tell, sill, still stuff, stiff, miss, toss, fizz and fuzz.Use the letter “y” instead except for several Italian pastas: spaghetti, vermicelli, macaroni and the word taxi, short for taxicab. There are no English words that end in “i”. ![]() Try using the letters “ge” or “dge” instead like in the words huge and judge. There are no English words that end in “j”.The word was particularly used during World War II and in the post-war ration period. Did you realize there are no English words that end in “v” except “spiv” which according to Wikipedia online is in the United Kingdom, a particular type of petty criminal who deals with illicit, typically black market goods an especially slickly-dressed man offering goods at bargain prices.
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