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Weird that the very first image in the article has a typo ("cancelation" vs cancellation).
by LoganDark 6mo ago
Weird that the very first image in the article has a typo ("cancelation" vs cancellation).
- buran77 6mo agoAmerican English allows the single l form, like traveling or modeling.
- mghackerlady 6mo agowell to be fair american english is just a bunch of typos someone made standardised on because he didn't like the british
- nozzlegear 6mo agoStandardized* /s Edit: I thought you were joking and that the answer was more like printing presses and a lack of an official "standard English" in the 1700s/1800s, but it turns out the answer really was closer to what you said. Noah Webster deliberately decided to make American English diverge from British English when he wrote his dictionary.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoYeah, I researched for a throwaway comment, what of it? (I was gonna comment this but decided to read the wikipedia article to ensure I was accurate)
- LoganDark 6mo agoI stand corrected; American English uses double-l in places like "compelling" but not always in places like "canceling".