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Re: spelling of the word cancelled
From: Matt Simerson
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998
Time: 5:55:36 pm
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Shawn Hogan wrote:
> >This means doing 2 searches in order to find all the cancelled/canceled
> >accounts. Which also means you can never have 1 found set for all
> >cancelled/canceled accounts.
> >
> >Are we able to change the status labels or is that something that is
> >already set up in the program?
>
> Yep... it was a spelling mistake in the old version. {grin}
>
> Reports and so forth have all been edited to maintain backward
> compatibility (it searches on 'cancel' so it will take Cancelled or
> Canceled.
>
> Cancelled isn't a word I found out recently... hehe So I finally changed
> it.
According to whose dictionary? According to mine "American Heritage
English Dictionary", and "Merriam Webster" the word past tense of "cancel"
is:
-celed or -celled; -celing or celling
Both are proper spellings of the same word. The words roots are from the
Middle English "cancellan", the Middle French "canceller", the Late Latin
"cancellare", and from Latin, to make like a lattice.
Neither is more proper than the other. Using two l's is historically more
correct while the the most generally accepted spelling today is with one.
Matt
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