The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked

Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by benj111 on Monday April 01, 2019 @02:35AM (#19541023)

"In fact we don't even agree on how to spell basic words"

Yes the US seemed to go with Webster, while the rest of the anglosphere went with Johnson. Not quite as simple as that, as there were a few different waves of reform.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_re...

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by plopz on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:39AM (#19543087)

And there are fun ones like the etymology of aluminum which went through spellings like a ping pong.

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by mikeash on Monday April 01, 2019 @10:14AM (#19543407)

Just yesterday, I ran into trouble while searching for noise cancelling headphones because the site where I was searching had it spelled “canceling” for some of the products and the search wasn’t fuzzy enough to show both.

See also: “Inflammable means flammable? What a country!”

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by chosenbreed37 on Monday April 01, 2019 @11:00AM (#19543917)

> Just yesterday, I ran into trouble while searching for noise cancelling headphones because the site where I was searching had it spelled “canceling” for some of the products and the search wasn’t fuzzy enough to show both.

'Canceling'? That looks like a spelling mistake :-)

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by stordoff on Monday April 01, 2019 @11:37AM (#19544449)

The Cambridge Dictionary lists it as "-ll- or US usually -l-". Both are considered correct.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cancel

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by mikeash on Monday April 01, 2019 @11:10AM (#19544086)

Both versions are considered correct. Perhaps by different people....

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