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From: Peter Hullah <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr>
Subject: Re: Dialling
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Markus Laker wrote:

> In British English, when we take a verb ending in and 'l' and add a suffix
> that starts with a vowel, we double the 'l', wherever the stress falls in
> the word.  In American English, you do so only if the word has more than one
> syllable and the last syllable is stressed.  Hence:
> 
>         Excelling
>         Cancelling (UK)
>         Canceling (US)
> 
> As always, there are exceptions: for example, we Brits write 'paralleled'.

I mentioned all of this in my posting. My question was basically about "dialling"
as opposed to "dialing" when "mailing" and "sailing" don't double the 'l' in
British English. 

Pete

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