RE: Labelled or Labeled?

["Lamothe, Emelie" <lamothee@aecl.ca>]

What we have here is a case of UK vs. US vs. Canadian convention for double
letters.  

Just someone who is fascinated by language origins, history, meanings and
conventions and plays on words,
Emelie Lamothe
lamothee@aecl.ca

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> >By the way....Webster's states that both "labeled" and "labelled" are
> >correct spellings of the past tense of the verb "label"...
> >
> >Spell check or not, both are ok.
> >
> >Ron Amoling
> >Joslin Diabetes Center
> >Ron_Amoling@joslin.harvard.edu
> 
> Interesting.  One of the style books that I use says that the
> use of the double l (or any other letter)
> is dictated by the accent in the word.
> If the accent is on the syllable including the l, then
> it is doubled in the past tense.
> 
> Since the pronunciation of label is LA-bel, this would indicate
> that the l NOT be doubled.
> 
> 
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