Massive English Resource: September 2015

Is it on-going or ongoing? - Future Perfect

Is it on-going or ongoing?

The required spelling here is 'ongoing'. It means 'progressing', 'continuing' or 'evolving'.

We often see phrases like these:

This is an ongoing project.
This is an ongoing problem.
The ongoing issue cannot be resolved easily.

More often, though, text is peppered with inconsistent use: 'ongoing' this and 'on-going' that.

This word never has been hyphenated, but people think that it is a mix of 'on' and 'going', but if you think of someone 'going on about grammar', you would not say that that person was 'ongoing'!

You can see that this is not a hyphenated compound at all. It's always been all one word.

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Kentucky clerk ordered to jail for refusing to issue gay marriage license - The Washington Post

A federal judge has ordered Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk, to jail after she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. (AP) By James Higdon and Sandhya Somashekhar September 3 at 10:37 PM Follow @sandhyawp ASHLAND, Ky. — For a moment there, it looked as though Kim Davis might stay out of jail. The 49-year-old Kentucky county clerk, who grabbed the national spotlight by refusing in the face of multiple court orders to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, had been given an out. She could remain a free woman, the judge said, if she gave permission to her deputies to sign the certificates in her stead. The judge gave her time to consult with her attorneys. But when the court reconvened after a short recess Thursday, Davis was not in her seat. An attorney explained that Davis, an Apostolic Christian, "does not grant her authority nor would allow any employee to issue those licenses." And so Davis consigned herself to jail,

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