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Jazzgirl, many thanks!
I did not think dubbing fitted the bill!
These "ladies who lunch" don't know it all!

Ah, yes....BUT
dub (verb) also means to rub the wax into the leather so dubbing can also be used when you apply the dubbin

...and if you apply it to your horse by mistake, you would be dubbing or dubbining Dobbin ;)

Poor old Dobbin!
Anyway, I have always called the preparation "dubbin", so to me, I would be dubbining rather than dubbing?

How are you today, Jazzgirl?

NOW according to Chambers ,

"dubbing" (a verb) is "to rub a softening and waterproof mixture into (leather)"

"Dubbing" can also be a noun, as is "dubbin"
meaning "a preparation of grease.

MY Chambers doesn't give "dubbining!

Jazzy, I hope you're feeling a bit better today! (but leave poor Dobbin alone!)

Rusty, of course , we "ladies who lunch" know what we are talking about!
.....believe me, you are dubbing your boots with dubbin!!
... and when you 've finished that, they haev been "dubbed"!

hi rusty
I am gradually coming to terms with the loss and feeling a lot calmer today. Just taking things easy.
Thanks. Hope you are feeling good :)

Hello, Jazzgirl,
That's fine.
These things can kick the feet from under you.

I am grand, thank you.

Posts keep crossing.....
hi Elle
Feeling a bit calmer. Thanks.
.....and when rusty , when you have finished dubbining your boots, they will have been dubbined, but not in Dublin :)

Glad today is a better day for you, Jazzy, but I expect you'll be up and down for a while....

Jazzy and Rusty- out of interest both check your Chambers - we've had discrepancies before, with mine being the ill-fated 13th edition .....

I've looked in the Concise Oxford and both dubbining and dubbing are given in there!
So we could ALL be right!

Well, Elle, I am not so unconvinced as I was.
My mind is open to coherent persuasion!
Possibly the "ladies who lunch" may have an argument on this one!
http://www.amazon.com/GO-TELL-AUNT-RHODY-Aliki/dp/0027004104
Let us hope this works!
You see, I have had another of my brainwaves and think you should buy this book.
You can tell the grandchildren all about the goose etc.
It will do wonders for your street cred!