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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Double letters in British English]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>William wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>New content only in this thread.</p><p>That linked article has a lot of information.</p><p>Thank you for the link.</p><p>I think what I saw was much shorther and thus much less detailed.</p></blockquote></div><p>The Wikipedia article does go into an impressive amount of detail, doesn’t it!</p>]]></content>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Double letters in British English]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>New content only in this thread.</p><p>That linked article has a lot of information.</p><p>Thank you for the link.</p><p>I think what I saw was much shorther and thus much less detailed.</p>]]></content>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Transcribed from the Affinity forum thread.</p><p>AWP &gt;</p><p> ... As a side note, I’ve always wondered why “questionnaires” has a double n but “millionaires” and “billionaires” only get one each, despite the fact that such people are wealthy enough to buy almost anything else that they want.</p><br /><p>WJGO &gt;</p><p> A possible explanation is that it is a similar situation to the following.</p><p>I read, sometime, somewhere, that words such as, for example, travelled, end in -led in American English yet in -lled in British English, with the exception in British English that the word paralleled has only a single letter l near the end, not a double letter l, because it already has a double letter l earlier within it.</p><br /><p>AWP &gt; </p><div class="quotebox"><cite>William wrote:</cite><blockquote><p> I read, sometime, somewhere</p></blockquote></div><p>Perhaps here:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Doubled_in_British_English">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ … sh_English</a></p><p>WJGO &gt;</p><div class="quotebox"><cite>Alfred wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Perhaps here:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Doubled_in_British_English">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ … sh_English</a></p></blockquote></div><p>Perhaps best we continue this in the following thread in your forum</p><p><a href="https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=968">https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=968</a></p>]]></content>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>In an Affinity forum thread</p><p><a href="https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/233176-end-of-affinity/#findComment-1381191">https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381191</a></p><p>then later in the same thread</p><p><a href="https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/233176-end-of-affinity/#findComment-1381566">https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381566</a></p><p>then</p><p><a href="https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/233176-end-of-affinity/#findComment-1381589">https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381589</a></p><p>then</p><p><a href="https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/233176-end-of-affinity/#findComment-1381597">https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381597</a></p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2025-06-26T16:19:54Z</updated>
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