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- “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:
- grammar - apologise for or apologise about - English Language Usage . . .
Cllr Allen, who has been a Tory councillor since 2004, apologised about the picture, claiming he did not
- 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]
- etymology - Does the word master denote masculinity? - English . . .
On the question of the origin of the master, @Jim correctly observes that magister is the Latin root of English master, and in Latin magister was a masculine word
- 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):
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