Re: Modeling or modelling?

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        Here's the rule from *The Portable English Handbook* (last
copyright 1982)

        1) double consonant after single vowel (allot) or at end of
one-syllable word (bat, run)
        AND
        2) the final consonant of a word stressed on the last syllable
(preFER)
        Otherwise, don't double.

        So there!!

Mary Durlak
East Aurora, New York (near Buffalo)
durl -at- buffnet -dot- net

On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, McDonald, Nancy (The Registry) wrote:

> Way back when I taught elementary school reading there was a "cvc"
> (i.e., consonant-vowel-consonant) rule when adding -ing that I was
> taught, and I passed (maybe still) it along:
> "When you have a verb with a cvc ending, and you want to add -ing, you
> double the last consonant ." E.g., bus, bussing.   I had many other
> teachers who said I was wrong.... but then rules regarding language are
> conventional and not more than that.
> "... But then, way goes on to way..."
> Nancy McDonald.
>
> >Modelling is Canadian spelling; modeling is American spelling. Many
> >words with double Ls fit this model - but obviously not the word
> >spelling.
>
> >Diane Burke
>
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