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I have a post somewhere about the frac’ing versus fracing versus fracking argument but I’m too lazy to look it up.

This comment posted on the PSYOPS article is the best I’ve seen.

marketskeptic1952 | Nov 8, 2011 04:54 PM  ET@Brophy

If you had paid attention in English class in elementary or middle school, the letter ‘c’ when followed by an ‘i’ or an ‘e’, the c is a soft c not a hard c. Hence the hard ‘c’ in fracture, the ‘c’ is followed by a consonant.

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Comments

  1. Anonomous says

    Give me a break—-it’s fricking fracking! Fracking busts rocks, damages water aquifers, causes earthquakes, etc., etc., etc.

  2. Anonymous says

    The “fracing” proponents just don’t like the word that comes to mind for people whose property has been fracked when they see the word “fracked.” The “fracers” know they’re really f*ckers — oh, I mean frackers, please excuse the language.

    And on the pronunciation: The “c” in “fracing” would have a hissing “s” sound as in “gassing”, so it wouldn’t sound at all associated with fracturing.

    The correct spelling is F-R-A-C-K-I-N-G. it sounds right, it looks right, and it brings up the right imagery.

  3. Amy says

    Thank you for responding to that nonsense, Sharon! I saw another remark like that after that same piece and it irritated me. Shout us down over spelling, how effective! Ugh.