Cancelled or Canceled?Follow

I recently discovered that cancelled has multiple allowable spellings. I now like this word immensly because it doubles the slim chance that I might inadvertantly spell it correctly. But the question here is, which spelling is more correct, if any?

There is currently a debate in the office about this. Battle lines have been drawn, and the strategic rubber band stockpiles of both sides have been deployed, leaving us mere minutes away from total office stinging twangy armageddon unless this can be resolved.

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Edited, Oct 8th 2008 7:08am by Kaolian

Aluminium .

"Cancelled" looks more right to me, but Firefox says its "canceled."

Recall from what?!

The Hammurabic style guide I was forced to use in Lollege 10 years ago. :p

Then I can see where the confusion lie. Try it with a bactrian camel rather then a dromedary (it's all in the humps).





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Edited, Oct 8th 2008 4:36pm by Elinda

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Canceled

I'll go with Firefox on this one.

It's "cancelled".

Shrivel, shrivelled, label, labelled, drivel, drivelled, ok, the last one isn't real, but you get the idea.

I think it's UK/US thing though, because my Firefox agrees with me.

I use "cancelled" when I type it out, and I don't care what everyone else says.

Having only one "l" looks incomplete and empty.

You mean ketchup?

yeah, I meant ketchup, but catchup is right though.

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Edited, Oct 8th 2008 11:52am by calindc

That's the beauty of the English language. You can make anything a verb or an adjective or almost any other part of speech if you want to. Just because it's not in the dictionary, doesn't mean it's not a word.

Bagelled sounds kinda like a way of folding to me. It would be fun to go bagelling down the road. Or maybe, "We bagelled his ***". Let your mind ponder on that phrase for awhile.