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Canceling or Cancelling (Read 1077 times)
Aug 11
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While working on the new SimV wiki, I typed "canceling." I used one "L" before the "ing." Someone tells me it uses two Ls. After googling it, and looking in the dictionary, it appears that it can be spelled both ways.
What's your opinion on this, and how do you spell "canceling"?
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Aug 11
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Depends if you use the British or American spelling. Canceling with one L is American.
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Aug 11
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Canceling or Cancelling
Firefox spell checker says that two Ls are wrong.
I tend to trust my spellchecker over just about every other resource on spelling.
Wiktionary says it depends on where you live:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canceling
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canceling
English
Alternative spellings
* cancelling (Commonwealth English)
Verb
canceling
1. Present participle of cancel.
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Aug 11
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Canceling or Cancelling
Firefox spell checker says that two Ls are wrong.
I tend to trust my spellchecker over just about every other resource on spelling.
You obviously use the US English version of the spell checker. I use the British English version.
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Wiktionary says it depends on where you live:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canceling
Wiktionary is correct.
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Aug 11
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Something I noticed in your screen capture there, that made me wonder about my post, and so I had another look...
American Firefox spellchecker is OK with either formation of 'spellchecker' but the British one isn't.
Odd bit of kit these spellcheckers are.
Still, I wouldn't type up on a forum without one.
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Aug 11
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Something I noticed in your screen capture there, that made me wonder about my post, and so I had another look...
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American Firefox spellchecker is OK with either formation of 'spellchecker' but the British one isn't.
Odd bit of kit these spellcheckers are.
I wondered about that. Spell checker is fine as it's two words.
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Still, I wouldn't type up on a forum without one.
There are many variations between British & American English. Both can be considered correct but I prefer the traditional British spelling I was taught at school. I don't really need one but you can download a spell checker dictionary in most languages & select which one to use.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/
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Aug 11
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My old dictionary also says both spellings are correct but speling is not or you'd further confuse the
speel
speil.
Contention canceled, er, cancelled.
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Aug 11
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Cancel.. In its singular form.
Canceling.. This does look incomplete, but, it saves ink!
Cancelling.. Well lets review council,.. school.. rule.. tool.. add an i-n-g, you see?
Flying with twins is a lot of fun..
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Aug 11
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Where's fozzer? Thought he's be all over this topic.
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Aug 11
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Steve M wrote
on Aug 11
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, 2010 at 9:17pm:
Cancel.. In its singular form.
Canceling.. This does look incomplete, but, it saves ink!
Cancelling.. Well lets review council,.. school.. rule.. tool.. add an i-n-g, you see?
Shcooling?
Boming?
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Aug 11
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machineman9 wrote
on Aug 11
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, 2010 at 9:58pm:
Steve M wrote
on Aug 11
th
, 2010 at 9:17pm:
Cancel.. In its singular form.
Canceling.. This does look incomplete, but, it saves ink!
Cancelling.. Well lets review council,.. school.. rule.. tool.. add an i-n-g, you see?
Shcooling?
Boming?
Spellchecking?
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Aug 11
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, 2010 at 10:24pm
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Reminds me of another......
........is it collet
a
bles, or collect
i
bles?
I've not researched, but I've seen both on signs.
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Aug 11
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U4EA wrote
on Aug 11
th
, 2010 at 10:24pm:
Reminds me of another......
........is it collet
a
bles, or collect
i
bles?
I've not researched, but I've seen both on signs.
I'm guessing people use 'a', as you're 'able' to collect things. Though I would use 'ible'.
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Aug 12
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machineman9 wrote
on Aug 11
th
, 2010 at 11:10pm:
U4EA wrote
on Aug 11
th
, 2010 at 10:24pm:
Reminds me of another......
........is it collet
a
bles, or collect
i
bles?
I've not researched, but I've seen both on signs.
I'm guessing people use 'a', as you're 'able' to collect things.
With me it's all a matter of pronunciation. Collectable sounds right. Note that it can be used as a noun or
verb
adjective. Again it depends on where you live. This is what Wikipedia says about it.
Spelling
Although "collectable" is the spelling listed first for the adjective by the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard spelling in British English, the dictionary observes that the "-ible" form is also valid, and has come to be common spelling in the United States.
PS. Words like canceling, modeling, traveling etc. always look wrong to me. With a single L following an E the logical pronunciation would be canceeling, modeeling, traveeling etc.
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Aug 12
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Hagar wrote
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With me it's all a matter of pronunciation. Collectable sounds right. Note that it can be used as a noun or verb. Again it depends on where you live. This is what Wikipedia says about it.
Spelling
Although "collectable" is the spelling listed first for the adjective by the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard spelling in British English, the dictionary observes that the "-ible" form is also valid, and has come to be common spelling in the United States.
My pronounciation treats the 'a' and the 'i' as the same sound.
'Pro-nounce-iation', or 'pro-nun-ciation'? Tomato, tomato.
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