[Ads-l] Word/Phrase: cancel, cancel culture, cancellation culture

[Mark Mandel]

To which I just replied:
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    How’s that again? You wrote
    >>>>>
    Yes another database, the Corpus of Global Web-Based English, crunches
a couple of billion words of text from 2012 and shows “cancelled” appearing
7.17 times per million words of text, compared to 6.13 for “cancelled.”
    <<<<<
    Mentally correcting "Yes" to "Yet" as an obvious typo is trivial, but
which "cancel(l)ed" is which?

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Mark Mandel

On Mon, May 20, 2019, 11:35 AM Ben Yagoda <byagoda at udel.edu> wrote:

> In which I answer the question Brian starts out with: 2000.
>
> Or thereabouts.
>
> http://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2019/05/20/double-l-spelling/ <
> http://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2019/05/20/double-l-spelling/>
>
> Ben
> >
> > Date:    Thu, 16 May 2019 23:00:50 -0700
> > From:    Bwh031451 <bwh031451 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Word/Phrase: cancel, cancel culture, cancellation culture
> >
> > What I’m wondering is: When did Americans start putting two ells in
> “canceled” and “canceling”?  I am well aware that two ells are preferred in
> British spellings, and that “cancellation” with two ells has been long
> preferred on both sides of the pond; for some reason Americans seem to be
> adopting British practice for the other forms as well.
> >
> > I can’t tell you how many times I have looked up home pages of people
> who post on Facebook, wondering they are Canadian, Indian or Australian,
> only to find they are Americans who just use the spellings favoured (sic)
> elsewhere.
> >
> > I expect they will soon start wasting ells on “levelled/levelling”,
> “bevelled/bevelling“, “travelled/travelling”, “pencilled/pencilling”,
> “parcelled/parcelling”,
> > “carolled/carolling”,”devilled/devilling”, “cavilled/cavilling”  et al.
> as well?
> >
> > note: or maybe they already have—in the above list, Apple spell-chequer
> (sarcasm) did NOT flag bevelled, travelled, pencilled, or pencilling as
> misspelled.
> >
> > Why not change them all at once and be done with the dirty business?
> (Sarcasm: And switch all our -ize suffixes to -ise, and our favorite,
> honorable colors to “favourite honourable colours”? All those spare Us have
> been piling up, unUsed, for centuries.)
> >
> > Basically, my question is: Is there any point anymore to knowing the
> difference between AmE and BrE spellings?
> >
> >
> > Brian Hitchcock
> > At Large
> > Email:  bwh031451 at gmail.com
> >
>
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