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Ah! Perhaps it's only words like to counsel (counseled) or to libel (libeled); up in Canada here people usually write counselled or libelled.
by retrac 10mo ago
Ah! Perhaps it's only words like to counsel (counseled) or to libel (libeled); up in Canada here people usually write counselled or libelled.
- bentley 10mo agoYes, in American English it depends on which syllable has stress. Compare: dueled, paralleled, canceled, pedaled, but controlled, compelled, extolled, appalled levered, snickered, but occurred, deferred focused, biased, censused, but compressed, embussed, outgassed worshiped, but entrapped (although even in America kidnapped seems more common than kidnaped—one of Webster’s less successful reforms)