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Google's Ngram Viewer: canceled vs. cancelled, from 1800, corpus American English. This shows canceled wrestling with cancelled between about 1940 and 1980 and finally triumphing by about 1990—but cancelled appears to be making a comeback this century.
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"
Also Corpus of Contemporary American English shows prevailation of cancelled due to over cancelled because of with a result of 81 over 42 (please see images 1 and 2). – ambitious_ph1lologist Commented Jun 7, 2020 at 2:55
Yes it's grammatical. E.g. "Please be aware that the event will be cancelled in the event of rain". You could also say "For your information, the event will be cancelled in the event of rain" or "Please be aware the event will be cancelled in the event of rain" but the lack of 'that' makes it less formal. –
cancel -> cancelling - cancelled. model -> modelling - modelled etc. American English: travel -> traveling - traveled. label -> labeling - labeled. cancel -> canceling - canceled. model -> modeling - modeled etc. However, both forms are used in both AE and BE.
Where should "in its entirety" be used in place of "in entirety"? Consider the following paragraphs. Which usage is correct, and is the alternative incorrect / less correct, or simply not as commo...
This is a different and fairly widely-used usage, as tchrist says in his answer. Indeed, in 'would you kindly just give up your seat for my great-grandmother', kindly and just are two of the hedging devices (pragmatic markers subset politeness) (the third device is the would you construction) (and the fourth, the winning smile).
Morale is low and men are disloyal. Low morale can be a serious problem and it cannot be raised by saying "liberty is cancelled until morale improves." Steelworker 1 & C was published in three major editions—in 1950, 1960, and 1966—as well as with minor updates in other years.
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'Cut checks' as canceled checks. The earliest instance of "cut checks" (in the sense of physically canceled checks) in Google Books search results appears in Fraudulent Canal Scrip: Report of Evidence before the [Illinois State] Senate Committee on Finance (February 4–15, 1859):