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That linked article has a lot of information.

Thank you for the link.

I think what I saw was much shorther and thus much less detailed.

The Wikipedia article does go into an impressive amount of detail, doesn’t it!

That linked article has a lot of information.

Thank you for the link.

I think what I saw was much shorther and thus much less detailed.

AWP >

... 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.

WJGO >

A possible explanation is that it is a similar situation to the following.

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.

AWP >

Perhaps here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ … sh_English

WJGO >

Perhaps best we continue this in the following thread in your forum

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=968

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381191

then later in the same thread

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381566

then

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381589

then

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. … nt-1381597