Cancelled or canceled?

[Muse]

I present this as a public service. This one has been confounding me for a few years now. In general I'm a good speller, so I figured it's because you see both in the media. I just hit a page that says this:
- - - -
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

I go back and forth between the two.

I am an American, and the standard American spelling use one "l".

My ex-husband was a Brit, and the standard British spelling uses two. He always insisted on "ll," and I sort of got into the habit.

Both are correct, one is simply American, the other British.

Webster's Dictionary shows both:

"Cancel \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Canceled or Cancelled;" etc.

 

[FoBoT]

as there is an ASCII shortage, i would opt for fewer letters

 

[Printer Bandit]

cancelled has always looked right to me.

 

[Muse]

cancelled has always looked right to me.

In a parallel universe, yes.

 

[Newbian]

According to firefox "canceled" is the correct one.

 

[busydude]

^^ Firefox shows both as correct.

I use cancelled all the time though.

 

[rcpratt]

I kind of like one L, for no particular reason.

 

[Rubycon]

Blonde or blond?

Busses or buses?

 

[Newbian]

^^ Firefox shows both as correct.

I use cancelled all the time though.

Then you must had added it or use a updated one for british speak.

 

[Newbian]

Blonde or blond?

Busses or buses?

Bolded ones are the ones that are correct according to firefox god.

 

[busydude]

Then you must had added it or use a updated one for british speak.

I checked.. I set the language to English(US).

 

[Newbian]

I checked.. I set the language to English(US).

Guess you added it then to the list.

 

[FoBoT]

Busses or buses?

buss is for electrons, bus is for peoples

 

[Oyeve]

canceled cancelled

Well, my MBP shows both as correct.

 

[Rubycon]

buss is for electrons, bus is for peoples

Never heard of buss (outside of the tradename for the fuse), always used bus bar.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Busses or buses?

I'd use both, but in different contexts.
"He busses the table," but, "Inner-city buses."

As for cancelled or canceled, oddly enough I'd use the former as a verb and the latter as an adjective: "He cancelled the check," but describe the result as, "A canceled check."

 

[Rubycon]

I'd use both, but in different contexts.
"He busses the table," but, "Inner-city buses."

Fuse - a device that protects a circuit from over load or a gunpowder filled cord to light a firecracker, etc. More than one: fuses.

Fuss: person on ATOT that complains. More than one: fusses.

Buses should rhyme with fuses.

Confused? ha! The thing on a front of a bomb dropped out of a plane is called a fuze...

 

[rcpratt]

Bolded ones are the ones that are correct according to firefox god.

Firefox doesn't have any issue with blonde for me. I've always used it like "she's a blonde" and "she has blond hair," but who the fuck knows.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I prefer cancelled.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Fuse - a device that protects a circuit from over load or a gunpowder filled cord to light a firecracker, etc. More than one: fuses.

Fuss: person on ATOT that complains. More than one: fusses.

Buses should rhyme with fuses.

Confused? ha! The thing on a front of a bomb dropped out of a plane is called a fuze...

On the other hand, Moose should rhyme with Geese.

 

[zinfamous]

I've always used cancelled; but I prefer canceled, for brevity and all that...

 

[ThatsABigOne]

I have always written cancelled. OOOOh, Opera thinks it's wrong! Check canceled... nope

 

[SparkyJJO]

Cancelled looks more proper to me.

One of the few words that the British spell differently than us that I believe they actually have right

 

[Taejin]

Never heard of buss (outside of the tradename for the fuse), always used bus bar.

like bussing someone's cheek. iirc buss itself is a word (kissing, but maybe more briefly?) so busses is kind of confusing/misleading compared to buses.

 

[darkxshade]

Google autocomplete has cancelling before canceling so more people use that I guess.

Also applies to travelling or traveling.