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"hotting up"? http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hot-up http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hot-up

• mc32 10y ago
  It's the trend against declension so instead of using "heating", you use "hotting", or instead of total "spending", total "spend". For many it sounds like it's more modern and young. But there are times when using the base word introduces collision with other meanings.
  • morley 10y ago
    "Hotting up" appears to be a quirk of British journalism, not necessarily a "trend." Not exactly modern and young when the first usage was in 1923 by P. G. Wodehouse. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10wwln-safire-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10wwln-safire-t.h...
  • charlesism 10y ago
    Interesting. My mental association is quaint and old. Where I live, it's the elderly who use the expression "hotting up;" generally in relation to food.
  • mabcat 10y ago
    Declension is for nouns, inflection's the more general term