Imanol Jul 24, 2010:

I am the culprit My suggestion was totally irrelevant, as I realized. And I must confess that I still have a hard time understanding what the author exactly means by "aides fléchées sur". This is a very unusual wording, whatever the meaning. I never ever came across it before.

Tony M Jul 24, 2010:

@ Ormiston Nothing has been 'eclipsed' — apart from one suggestion that was withdrawn by the answerer.

kashew Jul 24, 2010:

Tour de France We have been watching Schleck and Contador!

ormiston Jul 24, 2010:

2 tees or not 2 tees, that being the question how come some of this ongoing debate has been eclipsed ?!

kashew Jul 24, 2010:

Origins of target OFr. targuete or targete dim. of targe (Am. Heritage)
MFr. targette small shield (Webster New Enc.) and spelt that same way in Hachette 2004 for a small lock.

Tony M Jul 24, 2010:

double t? Here's what Oxford has to say on the subject, which suggests conclusively that while 'getting' does take a double t, 'targeting' doesn't:

Doubling of final consonant

1. When certain suffixes beginning with a vowel are added to nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, the final consonant of the stem word is doubled before the suffix:

(a) if the preceding vowel is written with a single letter (or single letter preceded by qu) and

(b) if that vowel bears the main stress (hence all monosyllables are included).

So bed, bedding but head, heading; occur, occurred but offer, offered; befit, befitted but benefit, benefited.

Suffixes which cause this doubling include:

(a) The verb inflexions -ed, -ing, e.g.

begged, begging

equipped, equipping

revved, revving

trek, trekking

(b) The adjective and adverb suffixes -er, -est, e.g. sadder, saddest.

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ormiston Jul 24, 2010:

2 tees or not 2 tees, that is the question I went by my 'ouch' reflex, although nowadays....

Valentina Viganò Jul 24, 2010:

@ kashew Targetted or targeted? I've always used the latter and here is a Brit reference:
http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-targ...
and my spell checker agrees with me.
However, Oxford concise dictionary reference is baffling and I don't know what to say.