DOT ING REVISION

(A) Where stroke Ing for the suffix "-ing" at the end would be awkward, unclear or impossible, a thin dot is written instead:

After thin straight downstrokes P T Chay, Downward Hay:
 

stopping seeping eating sitting stating

reinstating watering existing insisting resisting

persisting itching stitching attaching scratching

matching fetching potting repeating spitting toting

treating hesitating frustrating rotating cheating

(B) After Ar and the reversed FR VR FL VL strokes:
 

airing erring pairing boring tearing
 

mooring soaring storing curing glaring
 

freeing covering hovering raffling

rivalling unravelling grovelling snivelling

Note: earring

(C) After various final attachments where stroke Ing cannot join:
 

dispensing bouncing tensing entrancing* dancing chancing

* The verb is pronounced with stress on the second syllable
 

posting boasting costing fasting misting

nesting assisting plastering clustering mastering
 

administering upholstering shining freshening caving grieving
 

running burning learning wandering wintering

renting winning winding honing hunting roofing

rafting weaving wafting mentioning tensioning
 

cautioning cushioning positioning requisitioning

Ing joins well in these:

testing trusting jesting suggesting fashioning motioning

(D) Dot Ing is not used medially, use stroke Ing for the suffix "-ingly":

insultingly irritatingly temptingly acceptingly

frustratingly hesitatingly unhesitatingly interestingly

excitingly unsuspectingly admiringly sparingly

(E) After Ard and Ld strokes:
 

hoarding boarding affording discarding stewarding

balding folding yielding moulding withholding
 

Note: hold holding

(F) After a joined diphthong for the convenience of keeping the outline unchanged:
 

ploughing/plowing* pouting sprouting powdering touting doubting

spewing* computing disputing stewing tutoring hewing* feuding

* Note that these do not change to a triphone, as the I sound is part of the Dot Ing, see Section J below

(G) Stroke Ing joins well in these, and the diphthong becomes a triphone:
 

vowing viewing suing issuing queuing

barbecuing arguing renewing valuing
 

mewing imbuing denying bowing
 

(H) Ing on Short Forms


being doing going having wishing nearing
 

influencing surprising owning calling schooling
 

speaking telling chairing cheering balancing wording trading

A short form or contraction, whose outline does not contain the consonant(s) immediately preceding the "-ing", uses Dot Ing, even though stroke Ing might join well. This prevents misreading as a full outline for some other word:
 

coming comings giving misgivings

subjecting believing delivering signifying inscribing

thanking thinking informing performing manufacturing
 

expecting inspecting representing practising remarking

Also Dot Ing on these for clarity:
 

remembering numbering compare bring

Exceptions, as these are considered distinctive enough:
 

distinguishing extinguishing relinquishing characterising

(I) Dot Ing is used fter a halved or doubled stroke where, if stroke Ing were used, there would be insufficient angle to show up the different lengths:
 

bedding breeding bleeding debating
 

deeding dreading budgeting fidgeting

meeting admitting remitting promoting permitting
 

spattering spluttering motoring muttering/mothering simpering ordering

(J) As the Dot Ing includes the I sound, a vowel immediately before the "ing" sound does not change to a diphone:

pawing paying praying spraying supplying staying

straying tying trying chewing jawing hoeing

(K) Dot Ing is not used where it is not a suffix (a suffix will always form a separate syllable):
 

pang ping tongue spring string strong
 

(L) Names generally use a stroke Ing, as they need fuller outlines for clarity, especially as context cannot help with a name:
 

Tring Tooting Kettering Hutchings Harding Boeing

But Spalding Fielding

(M) Dash Ings

Where Dot Ing is used for -ing, change to a dash for plural "-ings" written at a right angle to the foot of the stroke:
 

wrappings sweepings toppings trappings

groupings helpings droppings scrapings
 

battings outings scratchings castings boastings
 

moorings meetings stirrings cleansings mutterings

This cannot be mistaken for an intervening third place dash vowel sign, as those are written through the end of the stroke:
 

samplings whirlpool

There are very few outlines that have a third place intervening dash.

(N) Contractions
 

become welcome income prospect whatever whenever

Derivatives/Related
 

Those below with "-ing" are using proximity to represent the "com" syllable:

becoming becomingly became, to become*

* Based on the short form phrase "to be"

welcoming welcomingly welcomed overcoming shortcoming

incoming incomer  (compare: newcomer)

prospective prospecting prospector
 

SUMMARY

• Generally after thin downstrokes, halved downstrokes and where joining Ing would not be clear: eating dreading meeting

• Not used medially, use stroke Ing for "-ingly"

• Only used for suffix, not plain syllable -ing

• Used on short forms where the last syllable is not represented

• Not used in names

• Dash Ings for the plural

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