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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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