modeling or modelling?
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Guys,
Which is correct: modeling or modelling?
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Which is correct: modeling or modelling?
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Are you trying to apply sense to the English language with respect to rules? Good luck with that.
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CanuckMiner
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English American
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skilful skillful
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Bill
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Can anyone explain to me why the recent Will Smith film is called "The Pursuit of Happyness"? I can't find "happyness" in even the American on-line dictionaries.
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Happiness is beer shaped.
Bill
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I work for in a US/UK team that does a lot of modelling (modeling) of liquids, gases and vapours (vapors). We make licences (licenses) for customers who then email us with enquiries (inquiries). After a few years the continual "correction" of spellings got boring and we just don't bother any more.
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Bill
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Spell, sell, stall, kill, bill etc. already have two l's after a vowel. So, you don't add (or need) in present continuous tense (or in gerunds).
*Why make the same mistake twice when there so many new ones available*
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Far from it. We just don't bother changing what they give us and vice versa. The only one that we've caved in on is "license" as both verb and noun.
I'm still (sadly) amused when I see my old "Drivers license" from my US days. None of my colleagues over there could see that "Drivers license" is a statement rather than an object.
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It's an acknowledged misspelling. Will Smith's character brings his son to a day care facility in San Franciso's China Town where the word "happyness" is written on a wall. The misspelling bothers Will Smith and he points it out.
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My American wife can't get over the bond film 'Licence to Kill'. No matter how many times I explain that it's essentially an English film (though probably made with American money) she insists it should be 'License to Kill' and that the film makers were idiots.
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I still find myself using "s" where I should be using "c's".
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"Model" has no "e" at the end and needs a double "l" when forming the participle,otherwise I would expected it to be pronounced with a long "e": "modeeling"
I wasn't taught this, but it works when deciding how to spell such words. (Except in the USA)
Other examples are "rate" and "rating", "rot" and "rotting", "mate" and "mating", "bat" and "batting"
Jeff
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However in principle I agree, star for you.
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Spot on.
I was taught that by my mother, my sister taught that to her children and I taught that to my son.
Hop -> hopping
Hope -> hoping
She was hopping around the room and I was hoping to go out.
Fill -> filling
File -> filing
I was filing a piece of metal and she was filling a pasty case with jam.
The effect of doubling the consonant to shorten the vowel is clearly audible and is different to the Jananese doubling of consonants which is to them an audible modification - almost repetition - of the consonant, eg konnichi wa (good day) comes from kono meaning this {something} and nichi meaning day.
She was just biding her time while I was bidding at the auction.
Books are being replaced by videos and so the population of the western world is losing literacy as a result.
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Adapt.
If you adapt something to extend its capabilities or to make it more versatile, why is it an adaptation and not simply an adaption?
Bill
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...tion is part of what is added to the word to give a new ending, so adaption could be derivative of a word adap (with no t) if it existed. There is a t in adapt isn't there? And there is no reason to remove it.
radius - radii
The original i stays and the i in the ending is added too.
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Bill
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The English rule is to apply a double consonant when adding -ing to the end of a word where the last syllable is prounced with a short vowel and there isn't already two or more consonants at the end of the word. Examples: batting, running, and wrapping. Counter examples: battling, backing, and ringing.
If the last syllable is pronounced with a long vowel, then a single consonant is used (usually, but not always this involves replacing an ending silient vowel with -ing). Examples: Bating, raging, and waiting.
In the case of model and label, both methods are accepted. It is the evil Microsoft empire that has been trying to conform everyone to the single L spellings of those words.
Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
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