Whether
it’s debtors ageing/aging or ageism/agism in business, a search of the internet
reveals around a third of articles on Australian sites use the secondary
spelling aging. The American spelling is aging without the ‘e’, but in
Australia there are two spelling variations.
According
to both the Macquarie and Oxford dictionaries, the preferred Australian English
spelling is ageing with an ‘e’. Aging without the ‘e’ is listed as a secondary
spelling.
Kelvin Eldridge
The preferred Australian English spelling.
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