Earlier today I was reading the national news and ran across an article that mentioned all of the “smokey fires” still blazing out West. I couldn’t help it; I cringed. “Smoky” is actually spelled without an e. I know; I graduated from Smoky Valley High School. But for those of us who weren’t as fortunate as to have their alma mater provide the spelling support, how would we know that? It comes down to understanding how suffixes are applied to base words. There are essentially three suffix rules although they are presented in different ways with different names depending upon the curriculum. I will refer to them as the dropping, doubling, and change rules. This blog post will examine the first of these, the dropping rule., Drop the 'e' rule is a very useful rule but like all rules there are exceptions. We usually drop the 'e' at the end of words when adding an ending that begins with a vowel: -ing, -ed, -er, -able, -ous, -ible, ious. writ e + ing = writing, hop e + ed = hoped, excit e + able = excitable., To knock someone over, usually associated with the first hit in a fight. 2. To spend (generally a lot of) money; to buy something. 3. To release an album. n. 1. An expensive car/ convertible. (see whip) v. 1. I'm gonna drop that kid if he don't back the f*** off. 2. Nigga, I dropped 500 G's on these rocks. 3..