Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lanl-a.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!lanl-a!jhf From: jhf@lanl-a.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: British English, American English Message-ID: <11370@lanl-a.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 17:33:04 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl-a.11370 Posted: Wed Aug 1 17:33:04 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Aug-84 02:33:35 EDT References: <929@pyuxn.UUCP>, <158@pyuxt.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 5 My Webster's 7th New Collegiate Dictionary lists both "canceled" and "cancelled" as correct spellings. So does the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, although it labels the latter as "chiefly British." I agree that the spelling with the double "l" is better; the other one has always looked wrong to me.