Travel

travel

The word travel has come to exemplify a common spelling quandary: to double or not to double the final consonant of a verb before adding the ending that forms the past tense ( –ed ) or the ending that forms the present-participle ( –ing. ) We see it done both ways—sometimes with the same word ( travel, traveled, traveling; travel, travelled, travelling ). As readers, we accept these variations without even thinking about them. But as writers, we need to know just when we should double that final consonant and when we should not. Because American practice differs slightly from British practice, there is no one answer. But there are well-established conventions.

traveled

Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2015.

Gore and Ernie travelled together to Thailand, Portugal, New York, and Cuba, where Gore visited his friend Fidel Castro.

When she died I took on the care of my father and travelled every week to his home to clean for him.

It is the third time they have travelled to Canada together and is Charles's 17th official visit to the country.

By the time I travelled to Lebanon in late July to visit my parents, ISIS was at the gates, not of our town but of the country.

Mr Anderson Wheeler travelled from Tanzania where he works as a big game hunter to give evidence yesterday.