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To: outofsalt

Why would you put a misspelled word in quotation marks?

/grammar police


11 posted on 02/12/2022 2:42:46 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

VERB
cancelled (past tense)
“While both canceled and cancelled are acceptable for the past tense of cancel, the version with one L is more common in American English, while the version with two L’s is more common in British English. American English typically only doubles the consonant when the stress is on the syllable attached to the suffix, as in remit and remitting.” https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/canceled-or-cancelled

American English is my second language. In quotation marks because I’m using a leftist term for a man I respect.
FReegards


30 posted on 02/12/2022 3:39:06 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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