To my eyes, "canceled" should be pronounced "kan-seeld". This is the rule I followed until Microsoft spell-check came along and told me it was wrong. I see from Google ngrams that "cancelled" was more popular than "canceled" until circa 1985, so I wonder if Microsoft spell-check is, in fact, dictating the future course of the language! –

Jun 10, 2014 · I understand the rules are very loose when it comes to double L's in English, and I have read several posts on here talking about "canceled" and "canceling" (vs "cancelled" and "cancelling"), but my specific question is more about the spelling of "cancellation". US English Oxford Dictionary - they do NOT mention cancelation with one "L"

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Aug 9, 2010 · The rule is that if you have stress on the first syllable, but not the second one- travel, parcel, cancel etc (note: in all these words, the first syllable is stressed on, but the second one receives no stress, or less stress), you drop the second L if it is AmEn. So it’s- traveler, traveling, traveled; parceling, parceled; canceling, canceled.

Jan 27, 2011 · Hello, Neil. This was once taught as a 'rule'; I remember being told this many years ago. But the fact is that hyper-prescriptivism is an untenable position. As the authorities I cite above say, 'since due to is widely used and understood, there seems little reason to avoid using it as a preposition'[as in 'The concert was canceled due to the ...

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A cartoon captioned … and all liberty is canceled until morale improves appears even further back in All Hands, a magazine published by the U.S. Bureau of Naval Personnel, from November 1961. There are unattested attributions on the web to some or other never-named World War II Japanese naval commander. That too, seems likely to be apocryphal.

Oct 27, 2015 · The word "straggler" comes to mind, meaning "a person or an animal that is among the last or the slowest in a group to do something, for example, to finish a race or leave a place."

Jan 20, 2016 · It's reasonably clear that there's a difference between the lowercase "o" and "0", but it's harder to tell with a uppercase "O" and "0".

Possible Duplicates: Which is correct, “neither is” or “neither are”? “Neither Michael nor Albert is correct” or “Neither Michael nor Albert are correct&