alt Hacker News> specced
Totally orthogonal, but you just reminded me of a pet peeve I have.
This word is correct, but I can't stand it.
I wish we spelled this "specked", even though that has a homonym.
Like trafficked, panicked, frolicking, etc.
"specced" makes my brain wince.
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butvacuum • yesterday at 3:04 PM
specked means to have specks. It is an entirely different word.
HPsquared • last Friday at 10:18 PM
Maybe spec'd
> Like trafficked, panicked, frolicking, etc.
Those aren't truncations of longer words though?
I'd write it as spec'ed but that's German grammar with ' as a truncation mark (signifying the omitted "ifi").