Abiding or abidding ?

[Andrea11]

Hi,

I have read in this site in the chapter which talk about irregular verbs that the present participle of 'abide' is 'abiding' but I thought that when we had the following pettern: consonnant + vowel + consonant we must doubling the consonant.

Am I wrong?

Best,

[tedtmc]

Other words which end with 'ide' :

ride - riding
chide - chiding
pride - priding

The consonant is doubled when there is no 'e' at the end:

rid - ridding
bid - bidding
bed - bedding

Rather than remembering the rules, I think it is easier to think of how other similar words are spelt.

not a teacher