Cancelled vs. Canceled: American Examples
(i) Jerry and Joanna couldn’t muster enough mangoes to bake a nice mango pie, so they just canceled the county barbecue.
(ii) The 9M entertainment news show, launched in 1996, was canceled due to the economic fallout from the covid pandemic, a spokesperson for BBC confirmed with CNN Business in an email.
(iii) The team running the show in Bollywood would never think of canceling the next blockbuster superhero film.
(iv) Since the automatic canceler stopped all electronic signals as soon as the tidal waves started up, it looks like the officers will have to go surfing instead.
(v) For the second consecutive year, Boston Calling has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Canceled or Cancelled – Which One is Correct?
“American and British English have many similar habits when it comes to past and present participles: both double the final consonant of a word when it follows a short vowel and has the stress on the syllable attached to the suffix (such as remit/remitted/remitting). However, if the stress does not come on the syllable that attaches to the suffix then the final consonant is not doubled (as is the case with edit/edited/editing).” – Lynne Murphy
Canceled or cancelled is the past tense of the verb ‘cancel.’ Both spellings are right. It’s just that Americans prefer ‘canceled‘ or ‘canceling,’ whereas ‘cancelled‘ or ‘cancelling‘ is used in British English and other dialects. However, the word ‘cancelation’ is rarely used and is technically correct, while ‘cancellation’ is by far the most widely-used spelling.
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