Is it really spelled "doxing"?

[hundredpercent]

In American English, consonants at the boundaries of syllables are written out once (focused, traveling, biased).
In English anywhere else in the world, consonants at the boundaries of syllables are written out twice (focussed, travelling, biassed).
Doesn't it then follow that "doxing" is the American spelling, and "doxxing" is the Commonwealth spelling?
Doesn't it then stand to reason that Vordrak was right?

 

[R00T]

imagine thinking the english have done anything right.

one x for business, three x's for play if you do it any other way you're wrong

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

imagine thinking the english have done anything right.

one x for business, three x's for play if you do it any other way you're wrong

or doxxxxxxxxxxing if we really like you.

 

[Jack Awful]

It's actually spelled "dyahckzinkgh"

 

[Angel Dust]

There's a lot of "who the fuck cares" threads on here but truly, who the fuck cares??

 

[byuu]

There's a lot of "who the fuck cares" threads on here but truly, who the fuck cares??

You care enough to click on the thread and respond to it.

 

[Fish-Eyed Fool]

No it's called docksing.

 

[hundredpercent]

No it's called docksing.

That would be harbouring, then, for the English?

 

[HarveyMCR]

The 16 year old Twitter Dooxxer

"Wow I never would've guessed you would've been suspended because we harassed your principal"
"Do you still live at 1372 17th Street haha? That's sooooo close to me I should go throw a brick through your window sometime haha"
"You're spending so much time deleting your old tweets lolz"
"You wanted to go to college? Ahaha what a shame"
"You act so mature for someone who goes to McFadden Intermediate in Santa Ana, California"
"Do your parent's know about your problematic posting history? "
-KPop Fan Cam-
"Did you just make fun of a disabled person?? I'M GONNA... I'M GONNA... I'M GONNA DOOOOOOOX"

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

There's a lot of "who the fuck cares" threads on here but truly, who the fuck cares??

I do.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I'm British and I spell it with one x.

 

[HumptyDumpty]

It's an abbreviation of docs, as in documents.

One x. Anyone who says otherwise is a drooling imbecile who is a dead weight on the gene pool.

 

[WarJams]

It's deauxing if you do it to a French Canadian

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

You can use as many Xs as you want if you spell it very dankly, like 69_doxxx[...]xxxyng_420.

 

[Troonos]

Yes, there's nothing in the infinitive that would necessitate doubling of the consonant in the participial form. In single-syllable verbs, the final consonant is doubled if the last two letters are a vowel and then a consonant, but X is one of the three consonants that are never doubled (the others being W and Y) in morphology.

 

[Dell Conagher]

from what i know, it comes from the .doc file you used to create on someone, and by telephone it became dox.
speaking of, anyone else get that rush when you find that crucial piece of information, they left out there that just unlocks their entire life. It can only be described as: I won bitch.

 

[byuu]

from what i know, it comes from the .doc file you used to create on someone, and by telephone it became dox.

No, it comes from docs as in documents. It's early internet slang like warez which is just 'wares' with a 'z'.
And that same culture used mostly plain text files - no one of them opened a GUI word processor just to type in an address.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

There's a lot of "who the fuck cares" threads on here but truly, who the fuck cares??

lots of people, surprisingly enough. I just use the "one 'x' only" spelling because it sounds right to me.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

biassed

bi-assed

C'mon man it's too obvious of a bait OP.

 

[Dell Conagher]

No, it comes from docs as in documents. It's early internet slang like warez which is just 'wares' with a 'z'.
And that same culture used mostly plain text files - no one of them opened a GUI word processor just to type in an address.

thats a nice way of saying the exact same thing