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#travelling # Traveled/traveling vs. travelled/travellingIn American English, the inflected forms of travel take one l so, traveled. traveling. traveler. etc. In varieties of English from outside the U.S. these forms take two l ’s travelled. travelling. traveller. etc. According to the ngram below, American English adopted the one-l forms in the early 20th century. Many other verbs ending in -el went through a similar transition around this time. Others, such as cancel. did not change until several decades later. This ngram graphs the use of traveled and travelled in a large number of American texts published from 1800 to 2000: ExamplesU.S.On average, it traveled 4 to 5 miles an hour. [Los Angeles Times ] Morgan claimed the French vessel has been towing at 4 nautical miles, whereas the tugs could have traveled at 6 to 7 nautical miles. [Newsday (dead link)] But perhaps the most logical of all explanations is that Romney is a time traveler. [Washington Post ] Outside the U.S.Rousteing is very young, and perhaps not particularly well travelled. [Telegraph ] That makes him ideally placed to answer the questions every harried air traveller would love to ask. [Sydney Morning Herald ]
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