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Bookmark or Share- "Cancelled" or "Canceled"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeTo my eyes, "canceled" should be pronounced "kan-seeld". This is the rule I followed until Microsoft spell-check came along and told me it was wrong. I see from Google ngrams that "cancelled" was more popular than "canceled" until circa 1985, so I wonder if Microsoft spell-check is, in fact, dictating the future course of the language! –
- Origin of "the beatings will continue until morale improves"A cartoon captioned … and all liberty is canceled until morale improves appears even further back in All Hands, a magazine published by the U.S. Bureau of Naval Personnel, from November 1961. There are unattested attributions on the web to some or other never-named World War II Japanese naval commander. That too, seems likely to be apocryphal.
- L versus LL in British versus US English [duplicate]This explains most of the differences: traveled, canceled, fueled and so on. (Both sides of the pond double the 'l' in words like propelled where the stress is on the second syllable.) The word enroll/enrol (note that the spelling difference appears in the base word as well as in the derived enrollment/enrolment ) is not part of this pattern ...
- "Cancellation", "Canceled", "Canceling" — US usageI understand the rules are very loose when it comes to double L's in English, and I have read several posts on here talking about "canceled" and "canceling" (vs "cancelled" and "cancelling"), but my specific question is more about the spelling of "cancellation". US English Oxford Dictionary - they do NOT mention cancelation with one "L"
- Usage of "cancel" and "cancel out" - English Language & Usage Stack ...When two things cancel each other out it means they "neutralize" each other, resulting in "zero." An example of this would be a sound cancelled out by another sound with inverted phase; by combining such two sounds, they cancel each other out and no sound is audible - the result is zero.
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