Thanks much to Powers for sharing this pair of recent strips, with very similar jokes. (Further striking that they were adjacent on his local paper’s comics page!) … Oh, and pretty good jokes to boot.
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Yep, a couple of good LOLs!
Disagreeing with the cartoonist on the spelling of “cancelling”?
Re: “canceling / cancelling” – Just as with “travelling”, Wiktionary claims that the double-L forms are British, and designates the single-L forms as “U.S.”, but that’s nonsense. I agree with Danny @2: despite my linguistic heritage, I definitely prefer the double-L forms in both cases.
Merriam-Webster has “canceled or cancelled; canceling or cancelling“.
We can prefer whichever we want, but the cartoonist isn’t wrong here.
Most of the guides I found say that “cancelled” is standard in the UK, and both forms are used in the US, with “canceled” being more common. Neither form triggers a complaint from spellcheck, for what that’s worth.
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Yep, a couple of good LOLs!
Disagreeing with the cartoonist on the spelling of “cancelling”?
Re: “canceling / cancelling” – Just as with “travelling”, Wiktionary claims that the double-L forms are British, and designates the single-L forms as “U.S.”, but that’s nonsense. I agree with Danny @2: despite my linguistic heritage, I definitely prefer the double-L forms in both cases.
Merriam-Webster has “canceled or cancelled; canceling or cancelling“.
We can prefer whichever we want, but the cartoonist isn’t wrong here.
Most of the guides I found say that “cancelled” is standard in the UK, and both forms are used in the US, with “canceled” being more common. Neither form triggers a complaint from spellcheck, for what that’s worth.