I've been synchronizing my phone with my PC for a while, and because of repeated exposure to something I've concluded is counterintuitive, I feel I must cast my vote on the proper spelling of the abbreviated progressive tense: Synching. Here are three reasons why we should be synching and not syncing: 1. The pronunciation of "syncing" would naturally be "sin-sing." 2. "Synching" has been in use in print and online in the "lip synching" sense for decades now. 3. "Synching" more closely points back to the word it's abbreviating. And here's a bonus reason: 4. "Syncing" just looks retarded. Now, I know people would be tempted to read it "sin-ching" like they're celebrating monetary success ("I just won ten bucks at slots! Sin ching!"). They may even start classifying it as a homonym to "cinching." But I think there are enough words in the English language that use "ch" f...