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From: kim@helios.enea.se (Kim Wald`n)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Bugs in Eiffel 2.2 Level A MicroVax/Ultrix
Message-ID: <KIM.90Jan3133354@helios.enea.se>
Date: 3 Jan 90 12:33:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: bertrand@eiffel.UUCP's message of 21 Dec 89 21:28:10 GMT

My reference "Engelsk universitetsgrammatik" by Svartvik and Sager,
which is the standard reference grammar used by the Swedish universities,
states (p 435):

	[... for verbs with non-stressed last syllable and for the adjective 
	`cruel', the ending `l' is doubled in British English, but
	NOT in American English:

		cancel	  cancelling    cancelled
		travel    travelling    travelled
		cruel     crueller      cruellest  
	]

So according to this work `canceled' is the correct spelling for Eiffel,
being developed in Santa Barbara, US, and `cancelled' would be inconsistent.

-- Kim Walden
Enea Data, Sweden
kim@enea.se