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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: British English, American English
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Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 19:13:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 27 19:13:10 1984
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I've used British spellings on a number of words for many years.  Not
words that seem to be just different (e.g., pyjamas/tyres vs. pajamas/tires),
but words using letter doubling where it seemed to make sense to double
letters.

Examples include the past tense (or present participle) form of words ending
in a single consonant preceded by a short 'e'.  (e.g., travel, cancel)
I've always spelled these words as "cancelled" or "travelled", because
"canceled" and "traveled" appeared to denote a long sound for that 'e'.
I fought a teacher's marking "cancelled" incorrect on a spelling test in
elementary school and won out.  Is that the reason behind the British
spelling?  How did the American spelling come about?
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