Search Again: Re: spelling of the word cancelled From: Shawn Hogan Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 Time: 6:23:46 pm Matt Simerson wrote: >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. Well it doesn't matter now... since it's already been done. {grin} The dictionary I was using only had the one with one l... {shrug} - Shawn ------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Data Point Solutions http://www.data-point.com (619) 452-3696 ICQ: 8319647

Messages In This Thread: spelling of the word cancelled by Shannon Owen on Sep 30, 1998 at 1:50:11 pm Re: spelling of the word cancelled by Shawn Hogan on Sep 30, 1998 at 3:28:27 pm Re: spelling of the word cancelled by Matt Simerson on Sep 30, 1998 at 5:55:36 pm Re: spelling of the word cancelled by Shawn Hogan on Sep 30, 1998 at 6:23:46 pm Re: spelling of the word cancelled by Matt Simerson on Oct 1, 1998 at 8:32:43 am Re: spelling of the word cancelled by Shawn Hogan on Oct 1, 1998 at 8:51:48 am