Why some words have different present participles that completely alter the original word and have a dual meaning. For example to tell a lie becomes ‘ you are lying’ instead of lieing which is the same as ‘you are lying in bed’

Question

I never understood why some words you drop the y and add ing and some words you don’t

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English has no rules, only rules with exceptions. This avoids a stuffy language rules committee, which would be a zoo, but the result is more exceptions than almost all other languages. Sorry.