more spelling issues I just found out that "canceled" and "cancelled" are both acceptable spellings for the past tense of cancel. Imagine my surprise when I Yahoo! searched "dallas cleveland flights canceled" to check on my parents' flight, and Yahoo! told me "Did you mean: dallas cleveland flights cancelled?" No, I meant "dallas cleveland flights canceled" just like I said. So I went over to spell check to prove Yahoo! wrong once and for all. I was surprised to see that "cancelled" was right! But imagine my sheer horror to find out that "canceled" was right, too!

I mean, really, we couldn't come to a consensus on this one? What happened, Noah Webster and Bubba Oxford English got into an argument and couldn't settle on one spelling? Couldn't they have just arm wrestled or had a game of Twister to settle it?

Perhaps it's just a little favor from the dictionary folks to third grade spelling bee contestants:

Teacher: "Canceled"

Third grade spelling bee contestant: Cancelled, C-A-N-C-E-L-L-E-D, cancelled

Other kids: NO!!!!

Teacher: WRONG!!!!

Third grade spelling bee contestant: Oh yeah? Eat this! *shows indecisive dictionary entry*

Teacher and other kids: (speechless) *jaws hit floor*

Third grade spelling bee contestant: Thanks to monger187, I now know that it can be spelled either way!

Teacher: Wow! Monger187 is a genius! Kids, for homework, read and memorize all of mindless drivel.

Kids: Yay!!!

This is the way I imagine it will probably happen.
  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 12/23/2004