i in p in p ing o p ing co p ing comp ing comp ting comp e ting comple ting complecting Some of those words are rare. "Oping" comes from "ope", a literary form of "open". "Comping" comes from "comp", a jazz term. (It has other, informal uses.) "Compting" comes from "compt", an archaic form of "count". ----
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.
Martin Gardner mentioned that in one of his columns. (See "The Oulipo", in _Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers_.) He attributes it to Dmitiri Borgmann, _Language on Vacation_. -- Don Reble djr@nk.ca