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From: nce@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr N.C. Eastmond)
Subject: Re: Dialling (was Re: Is '#' a "pound sign" or what?)
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: > Why, then, do Brits double the 'l' in "dialed"?

Why do Americans not use the "ll" in "dialled"? We invented the phone,
didn't we?
