Cancelling is BE and canceling is AE. I can change the language on my Word 2003 even within sentences. It copes easily with several different Englishes or other languages in one document. I am sorry I cannot answer your question about regions 'accepting' the other form but it would certainly be recognised as a standard English. I hope the first bit of this reply is helpful
In which contexts do I have to use canceling or cancelling? Google returns 15.6 million results with canceling and 18 million with cancelling, so I don't know what is the good spelling.
I'm trying to figure out if there is a specific rule behind the word "cancel" that would cause "cancellation" to have two L's, but "canceled" and "canceling" to have only one (in the US). I unde...
I think "cancelling" an event (in my calendar) pretty much covers it.
Not quite the same as checking a queue and then cancelling something. Your example is from a computing context, true, but the term veto is not normally used for stopping requests.
I understand that we usually don't use hyphens when the meaning is clear (e.g- noise-cancelling headphones). I am just a bit confused when the hyphen is put between just two words instead of more than one word acting as an adjective (for example- the down-to-earth man).
I thought I had a good understanding of the difference between "postpone" and "cancel," but lately I've seen officials using postpone instead of cancel, perhaps to soften the blow of cancelling a fun event.
Not that the Navy used shanties but I understand that it was common for a shantyman to break off the song and out call "Belay" when the task was complete. Obviously the song would stop at that point but in many cases it would be necessary to belay the line or all the hauling would be pointless. Maybe the term "Belay" meaning "stop what you're doing" came from this circumstance.