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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Art & Literature → Double letters in British English
In an Affinity forum thread
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
Transcribed from the Affinity forum thread.
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 >
I read, sometime, somewhere
Perhaps here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ … sh_English
WJGO >
Perhaps here:
Perhaps best we continue this in the following thread in your forum
New content only in this thread.
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.
New content only in this thread.
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!
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