I vow, from this day forward, to never spell the past tense of cancel as "cancelled."
Why? Because if the past tense of travel is "traveled" then the past tense of cancel is most certainly "canceled." I don't care if the dictionary claims both are right. There are enough exceptions to English language already. I refuse to perpetuate yet another!
(If you think this has been bothering me for quite some time now, you are right on the money)
OCD? maybe...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Canceled vs. Cancelled
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But the past tense of propel is propelled and the past tense of expel is expelled...
the pronunciations for travel and cancel are similar but differ from the pronunciations of propel and expel. Consider the last syllable.
This has been bugging me lately, especially when I see on CNN: Auto Bailout Session Cancelled. It's an original (and simple) rule that if the verb ends in el, the suffix is simply attached, with no extra l. Traveled, traveling; canceled, canceling. It's just the proliferation of other verbs that end in two l's, like call (called, calling). Or yell (yelled, yelling).
So, right on for your complaint! I feel it.
Canceled = American English
Cancelled = British/Canadian English
So both are right and you should use the one that is correct for the region you live in. You need to get a life if this bugs you so much.
Yes, perhaps I should spend more time posting on random people's blogs anonymously. That would be much more productive.
Hi Pamily! I was looking on Google to see the correct way to spell Canceled! Your blog came up and it just cracked me up the way you responded to the following smart but "Anonymous said: So both are right and you should use the one that is correct for the region you live in. You need to get a life if this bugs you so much."
I just loved it and you are so right and I hope you make him think before he will waste his time like this in the future. Thanks for helping me out with the spelling! I am a nurse, and truly hate to spell things wrong! Have a great day! HopeyLPN
Like it takes so much time to make a random, anonymous post on some blog. I'm doing it right now, and it's only taking me a few seconds. Much less time than it takes to write an entire blog entry (or maintain a whole blog) and then monitor all the responses.
Anyway, anonymous was right. Both ways are acceptable, so why do you care?
this is getting mildly hilarious. I love all of you for being so up in arms over a blog that written mostly jokingly over a year ago. And I mean that to both the yay and nay sayers. Anonymous Numero Dos, keeping up on my comments is as complicated as getting a message in gmail that links me right to whatever you've felt I needed so desperately to know concerning my random blatherings on the world wide web.
Anyway, to future commenters: I don't actually give a fuck how YOU spell cancel(l)ed. It's about as important to me as this blog is to the world of journalism (ie not at all).
Excuse me, by número dos I actually meant tres.
But what I really want to add is could you guys maybe tell me how you're even getting to this post? It's gotten so popular and I can't even begin to imagine how. It reminds me of the days when myspace discussion boards were popular and people would become outraged over some idiot posting something stupid and barely offensive. As if space on the Internet was in short supply and every word written there was to be taken as near scripture.
Lighten up, people! Get back to jerking off over Internet porn and let this snappy little alligator wax tangential.
I don't know how your blog entry got to be so high up on google, but I found it by typing "canceled vs cancelled." Perhaps, at the time it was written, your blog was filling a curious void. The world just needed to know!
I like snappy little alligator! She's fiesty! XD
A very entertaining conversation. Makes me wonder if it's because the accent of propel and expel are the last syllables and cancel and travel are the first, then the spelling changes because of the emphasis of the syllable.
when you put your mind on the internet you open a business of opinions where everyone who is curious and uses a search engine vs brains will find you and say stuff.
i searched the title of the post because in my job i use the word canceled for many different situations and in different interactions with people all over the world.
don't get offended because people continue to find your blog entry on Google search results. you are semi-famous! remember, the delete post button is hard to click but if you want privacy; account preferences may be the place to start.
If excel / excelled, then
cancel / cancelled ought to be correct. It isn't that simple though. American English dropped the second L.
"So both are right and you should use the one that is correct for the region you live in."
Canceled = American English
Cancelled = British/Canadian English
Hi. Here is the rule about whether or not to double the final consonant before adding -ed or -ing. Both conditions must be met to double the final consonant: 1. the word ends in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel (exception would be the u following a q as in quiz) 2. the final syllable is accented. Cancel meets the first condition, but not the second; therefore, the l is not doubled.
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