March 28, 2021
Is It Canceled Or Cancelled?
UncategorizedadminAs the Ngram under shows, American English has solely lately adopted the one-l spellings of canceled,canceling, and so forth., and the change is not absolutely engrained within the American language. In net searches of American publications overlaying the last couple of years, cancelled and cancelling still appear about once for each five instances of canceled and canceling. Outside the U.S., meanwhile, the one-lspellings appear only very hardly ever. This is true even in Canada, which is usually friendlier to American spelling idiosyncrasies than is the rest of the English-talking world. […]
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