Unit 34: Adding suffixes to longer words – double or not?
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NOTE: These rule-breakers apply to British spellings only. |
If a word ends in one vowel and the letter l, we nearly always double the l when adding a vowel suffix, no matter which is stressed:
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American spellings stick to the rules, mostly. |
travel + ing = traveling | equal + ed = equaled | cancel + ing = canceling |
See Unit 36 for more exciting differences.
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