Grammar Peeve

[petermarcus]

You'd think that an airline named American Airlines would learn how to spell "canceled" the American way.

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[days-unfolding.livejournal.com]

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary says that either spelling is okay.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I worked for a fax company a long time ago, and when people would cancel their faxes, we would send out "cancelled". We had a few people call us on it, and we looked it up in a few references, and had to change our software. I've always been peevish about it since because I was the one who had to change the software (yet, I didn't write it in the first place, so could be smug about it ;)