“Councilor” vs. “Councillor” - English Language Usage Stack . . . First, councilor and councillor are exactly the same word under two variant spellings, just like the names John and Jon Second, it is not true that councilor “is the US spelling” In point of fact, councillor is fully twice as common in print in the United States as councilor is according to this Google n-gram:
When is L doubled? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Doubling final consonants: The last consonant often gets doubled in present participle and past participle when it's a part of stressed syllable or the construction is CVC (Consonant - Vowel - Consonant) where the vowels are represented with a single grapheme, not digraph
Should street numbers be written as cardinal or ordinal numbers Every tin-pot local councillor in Britain would weep to see a road that could have been named in his honour being wasted on an unappreciative number! – FumbleFingers Commented Oct 20, 2014 at 18:29
Does anyone use both whinge and whine? Croxteth Labour councillor Peter Mitchell says that, rather than whinge about cuts, the community, with the council, is simply making them work [Independent] Needless to say the battle between these two foes plays out against the backdrop of a seething, whinging populace [Sydney Morning Herald]
Origin and meaning of from out of left field Councillor Leahy surprised the gathering by supporting Councillor Delaney He was only too pleased to learn why the city was being "guzzled " And from "Gossip," again in the Cambridge [Massachusetts] Sentinel (June 20, 1931):