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>>What about skilful and skillful? Which is correct?<<
I would choose "skillful", but both of them are correct, I think. By the way, "skil" is a fish's name.
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Thanks. I wonder what rule applies to skillfull/skilful that doesn't apply to, say, kidnapped vs. kidnaped.
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"Skilful" is British and "skillful" is American. There, mystery solved.
It's definetely not "skillfull". The ONLY word in the English language that ends in "full" is the word "full."
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"Most Americans would spell "worshipped" and "kidnapped". An American would look at "worshiped" and say "wer-SHIPD?". "
No, they wouldn't. Americans spell it "worshiped."
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"so "p" can be dubbled like "kidnapped". "
Unless you speak American English, in which case it is "kidnaped."
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The boundary between BrE and AmE might tend to blur...
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Just like British films are dubbed in America, right Adam?
It's so obvious that you choose to live in your own world instead of listening to people around you - including native-born Americans who tell you that it is quite the norm to spell them "worshipped" and "kidnapped" in American English. Well have fun under whatever rock it is you chose.
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To Adam:
I am Japanese. And I don't speak English.
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>>No, they wouldn't. Americans spell it "worshiped."<<
We do?
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While we are on the Brit/Am English subject, I'm having trouble in my critique group because I spell all right as one word - alright. I have always spelled it that way and worked for a while on a large newspaper and the editors left it that way. I have heard that it is acceptable in British English but disputed at best in American English. My spell-checker never red-flags it.
Anyone know what's what with this?
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Both versions are acceptable to me and I definitely use both. I've never had anyone tell me it was wrong.
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Thanks for your input Tiffany. Everyone in my group takes me up on this constantly, insisting it is absolutley wrong and they learned it in college etc. I can't seem to break myself of it but I also wonder if they are right and I wonder if it's okay in Brit English as one source I found on the internet said.
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Well, I don't know about BrE, since I'm American, but neither form is wrong to me and are used interchangeably in my speech.
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I have always spelled "kidnapped," "worshipped," and "cancelled" with the double consonants...along with many other Americans. Both forms are acceptable in the U.S. and I would even dare say that it is pretty evenly split with regard to "cancelled" and overwhelmingly double consonant with regard to the other two.
At least Adam is sticking to a linguistic discussion this time...generally it's just spam.
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