Travel

Brioche Senior Member

theinquisitor said:

Hi everybody,

I have found these two forms in different texts, and I am not very sure about its proper use. I have found that the single l form (traveling) is commonly used by American English speakers, and travelling is the normative English form, but another doubt arises in me, I thought that the rule to double the final consonant when adding a suffix, suposses that it has to be a stressed syllable which ends in the following structure, consonat + vowel+ consonant , example: for get - forge tt ing, am I right? If it is so, is it an exception or am i forgetting anything?

Ian Tenor Senior Member

English UK

Traveling Vs. Travelling

but there are many exceptions, are there not, as already pointed out in this conversation, such as travelling, counselling, counsellor, modelling, quarrelled, cruellest .

One exception often pointed out in both country s usages - though I am sure that there are others - is for matting . which doubles the consonant even though it seems unnecessary to do so.

Kid napping . - which troubled me - from to kidnap , is said to be a back formation from kidnapper (kid napper = child stealer), which required the double consonant because of the stress on the first syllable. I read that there is an alternative spelling (US, I guess), kidnaper.