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This always drives me crazy. Aging or ageing. Both are right according to the dictionaries. But neither ever looks right to me, so I usually wind up looking them back up whenever I use it. A matter of preference, I guess. But I'm not sure I have a preference here. Interested in other opinions on this curdled word. 
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it's a tinny word, no matter how you spell it.
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As spellings, I prefer "ageing." But I wish I could avoid doing either.
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My preference is aging (the spelling, not the process), but until your post, WO'N, I never thought it strange. Now that you've called my attention to it, I'll never look at it the same way. (But I still prefer the no-e version.)
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Generally, I avoid using it. If I can't avoid it I use the No E version.
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My preference is aging (the spelling, not the process)Ohmigawd--I hope so! Ha!
To me, there's nothing wrong with the spelling: aging.
G is soft before i as well as e, unless the g is doubled.
(All right, all right, MOSTLY. I know there are a few exceptions, but am unable to list them all, except the one where a word begins with g; for ex. ginkgo.)
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You mean, it reminds you of the sound of rattling bones?
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Yeah, and why not "milage" then, as it goes with age  ?
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I have always understood it to be a US/UK difference. Normally I avoid unnecessary E's where both spellings are valid: salable and milage rather than saleable and mileage; but in the case of aging (which is perfectly good by analogy with raging, paging, and managing) the visual effect of an Americanism is so strong that I have reluctantly gone back to ageing.
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