In 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.
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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:
Is it travelled or traveled? – Future Perfect
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When adding -ing and -ed to verbs, we sometimes double the consonant beforehand. People are often confused with ‘travelled/traveled’, ‘benefitted/benefited’, ‘focussed/focused’ and ‘targetted/targeted’. This tip answers some of those queries.
The official requirements are that we ‘double a single consonant letter at the end of any base where the preceding vowel is spelled with a single letter and stressed’.
Traveling or travelling? Doubling a final consonant when adding a suffix. – WordReference
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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: forget – forgetting, am I right? If it is so, is it an exception or am i forgetting anything?
Travelling is the preferred spelling in Canada. In Canada and Britain, the rule is to double the final l before all endings except -ize. Traveling is preferred in the United States and seen occasionally in Canada.
The word traveling has been spelled in two ways, the American and the British way. Both nations have tried to do things differently, although I blame the early americans who sought to be different from the colonists way in the past. Things have evolved since then.
American English has adopted single ‘L, along with many other changes in the English language spoken in America, around the early years of the eighteenth century. In 1828, Noah Webster wrote the first large American dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language. He wanted to show the new country United States of America spoke a different dialect from Britain
In American English,
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