When a word has a c for an ending, like frolic, or colic, or comic, and mimic, and picnic, you always add a k before appending. You know, sticking an e, or I, or y. For example, colicky, frolicker, picnicker, mimicker, and hickory, dickory, docker.
23 seconds sound clip from the A Boy Named Charlie Brown movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:35:58.606 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- And tomorrow you'll represent our class in the all-school spelling bee.
- I'm going home and really bear down. I'm going to study the whole dictionary.
- Words ending in I, e, drop the e, and change the I to y before adding i-n-g.
- Right, that keeps the spelling stable.
- 'Sleigh, Stein, Fahrenheit.'
- Excepting, 'fiery, hierarchy, hieroglyphic.'
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