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Bookmark or Share- Is the phrase "Please be informed that" grammatically correct?Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
- 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.
- cancelled with two L's a generation thing or regional thing?In the United States, we spell canceled with one l (or at least I grew up learning and using canceled with one l). However, now I see more and more people especially in blogs using cancelled, and have also noticed that on the TV I watch cancelled is the preferred spelling.
- "Cancelled" or "Canceled"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeThe past tense of cancel is strictly cancelled in British English (BrE). In American English (AmE), however, it is spelled (BrE spelt!) canceled. Note that cancelled is also acceptable in American usage. There are many other verbs whose past tenses and present participles follow a similar pattern: worship: worshiped (AmE)/worshipped (BrE ...
- When is "L" doubled? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeYes; in general, British (Commonwealth) English prefers a double 'l'. Or more accurately a double consonant: so travel -> travelling, but warble -> warbling. – njd. Aug 9, 2010 at 16:10. 19. The general rule in British English is to double the 'l'. The general rule in American English is to double the 'l' only when the last syllable is accented.
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