Mocking Poor Grammar
Since 2007
A noun that is formed from a verb and which describes an action. In English it ends in -ing, eg 'the baking of bread' and 'Smoking damages your health'.
I don’t know which is funnier: the fact that the Republicans were so worried about Sarah Palin’s ability to pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ that they resorted to phonetic spelling on the Autocue, or that they then left that spelling in the transcription that was released to the press.
Doh!
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