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Subject:Re: Modeling or modelling? From:"McDonald, Nancy (The Registry)" <McDonalN -at- LCI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:54:00 -0400
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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