Focusing on Double or Nothing…And No Bussing, Please!

Posted by Editormum on Friday, 4 July 2003 in Reader Questions | ∞

The word focus is, like so many words, “a puzzlement” when it comes to adding suffixes. According to Fowler, the proper inflections are focus, focused, focuses, focusing. Fowler notes, however, that many printers and publishers use the “-ss-” form instead. It is not, apparently, solely a British tendency. Fowler also points out an interesting exception […]