IS THERE A WORD FOR THIS?

Though I have never actually heard this word used, I would call pinning a medal on someone medaling. Note it would be a three-syllable word. Today the thing that perplexes me is the number of college-educated persons, including newscasters, who call meddling, a two-syllable word, meddelling. Where did they get that extra syllable? This is epidemic with all kinds of words. Is diction a lost art?