Re: stupid question: how do you spell that thing we do?

Subject: Re: stupid question: how do you spell that thing we do?
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:46:32 -0500


Keith Cronin wrote:
> For years I've heard and used a spoken abbreviation for "documenting" when
> talking with managers and other tech writers. That abbreviation *sounds*
> like "docking" - as in "when I get done docking this app, I've got a ton
> of release notes to do."
>
> Is there a correct way to *write* this word? Obviously "docking" is both
> incorrect and deceptive. But "docing" looks weird, and "doc'ing" looks
> like the name of an obscure underground Haiku poet. "Doc-ing" comes close,
> but still looks bad, at least to me.

Don't write it at all - it's best as a spoken abbreviation.

Verbing weirds nouns.

Mike O.



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