Canceling or Cancelling

[pete]

While working on the new SimV wiki, I typed "canceling." I used one "L" before the "ing." Someone tells me it uses two Ls. After googling it, and looking in the dictionary, it appears that it can be spelled both ways.

What's your opinion on this, and how do you spell "canceling"?

8-)

[Hagar]

Depends if you use the British or American spelling. Canceling with one L is American.

[tedyflies]

Canceling or Cancelling

Firefox spell checker says that two Ls are wrong. 

I tend to trust my spellchecker over just about every other resource on spelling.

Wiktionary  says it depends on where you live:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canceling

canceling

English

Alternative spellings
* cancelling (Commonwealth English)

Verb

canceling

   1. Present participle of cancel.

[Hagar]

[quote]Canceling or Cancelling

Firefox spell checker says that two Ls are wrong.

[tedyflies]

Something I noticed in your screen capture there, that made me wonder about my post, and so I had another look...





American Firefox spellchecker is OK with either formation of 'spellchecker' but the British one isn't.

Odd bit of kit these spellcheckers are.

[Hagar]

[quote]Something I noticed in your screen capture there, that made me wonder about my post, and so I had another look...





American Firefox spellchecker is OK with either formation of 'spellchecker' but the British one isn't.

Odd bit of kit these spellcheckers are.

[H]

My old dictionary also says both spellings are correct but speling is not or you'd further confuse the speel speil.
Contention canceled, er, cancelled.

8-)

[Steve M]

Cancel.. In its singular form.
Canceling.. This does look incomplete, but, it saves ink!
Cancelling.. Well lets review council,.. school.. rule.. tool.. add an i-n-g, you see?

[BrandonF]

Where's fozzer? Thought he's be all over this topic. 

[machineman9]

[quote]Cancel.. In its singular form.
Canceling.. This does look incomplete, but, it saves ink!
Cancelling.. Well lets review council,.. school.. rule.. tool.. add an i-n-g, you see?

[BrandonF]

[quote][quote]Cancel.. In its singular form.
Canceling.. This does look incomplete, but, it saves ink!
Cancelling.. Well lets review council,.. school.. rule.. tool.. add an i-n-g, you see?

[U4EA]

Reminds me of another......

........is it colletables, or collectibles?

I've not researched, but I've seen both on signs.

[machineman9]

Reminds me of another......

........is it colletables, or collectibles?

I've not researched, but I've seen both on signs.

I'm guessing people use 'a', as you're 'able' to collect things. Though I would use 'ible'.

[Hagar]

Reminds me of another......

........is it colletables, or collectibles?

I've not researched, but I've seen both on signs.

I'm guessing people use 'a', as you're 'able' to collect things.

With me it's all a matter of pronunciation. Collectable sounds right. Note that it can be used as a noun or verb adjective. Again it depends on where you live. This is what Wikipedia says about it.

Spelling

Although "collectable" is the spelling listed first for the adjective by the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard spelling in British English, the dictionary observes that the "-ible" form is also valid, and has come to be common spelling in the United States.

PS. Words like canceling, modeling, traveling etc. always look wrong to me. With a single L following an E the logical pronunciation would be canceeling, modeeling, traveeling etc.

[machineman9]

With me it's all a matter of pronunciation. Collectable sounds right. Note that it can be used as a noun or verb. Again it depends on where you live. This is what Wikipedia says about it.

Spelling

Although "collectable" is the spelling listed first for the adjective by the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard spelling in British English, the dictionary observes that the "-ible" form is also valid, and has come to be common spelling in the United States.

My pronounciation treats the 'a' and the 'i' as the same sound.

'Pro-nounce-iation', or 'pro-nun-ciation'? Tomato, tomato.