Is the launch Canceled or Cancelled?

One El or two? Bill updated the home page with the latest unfortunate news about the cancellation of this weekend's launch and I thought the spelling of 'canceled' was wrong. It turns out that 'canceled' is a valid "American" spelling of 'cancelled'. Cancelled is the Canadian/British version. Like 'cheque' or 'check' / 'doughnuts' or 'donuts'. And being a Canook it just looked weird.

That said - a new flying field would be nice...

CATO will be flying (or is it fllying ) in Salem, CT that day and MMMSC has moved their launch to 17 September in Berwick, ME (CMASS will have some equipment there to help with launching - G impulse limit). The Flis anniversary launch (and CAKE) will be 01 October in Amesbury. I hope Jim takes the opportunity to stop by the field in Berwick.

hgreenblatt wrote:

One El or two? Bill updated the home page with the latest unfortunate news about the cancellation of this weekend's launch and I thought the spelling of 'canceled' was wrong. It turns out that 'canceled' is a valid "American" spelling of 'cancelled'. Cancelled is the Canadian/British version. Like 'cheque' or 'check' / 'doughnuts' or 'donuts'. And being a Canook it just looked weird.

That said - a new flying field would be nice...

To tell you the truth I thought it was two ells but the spelling checker made me get rid of one of them. By the way, is there a spelling checker add in for the forum.

billspad wrote:

hgreenblatt wrote:

One El or two? Bill updated the home page with the latest unfortunate news about the cancellation of this weekend's launch and I thought the spelling of 'canceled' was wrong. It turns out that 'canceled' is a valid "American" spelling of 'cancelled'. Cancelled is the Canadian/British version. Like 'cheque' or 'check' / 'doughnuts' or 'donuts'. And being a Canook it just looked weird.

That said - a new flying field would be nice...

To tell you the truth I thought it was two ells but the spelling checker made me get rid of one of them. By the way, is there a spelling checker add in for the forum.

When I bring up the editor, it automagically points out my spelling errors - underlined in red. Maybe it's a Mac thing.

BTW, it doesn't complain about either canceled or cancelled, but does complain about cheque and Canook. I always thought it was Canuck, eh?

jbuscaglia wrote:

When I bring up the editor, it automagically points out my spelling errors - underlined in red. Maybe it's a Mac thing.

BTW, it doesn't complain about either canceled or cancelled, but does complain about cheque and Canook. I always thought it was Canuck, eh?

Evidently the spelling checker for the news isn't the same one as the forum because this one doesn't care about the ells but the other did. I made some intentional misteaks and this one caught them.