The double l's are a characteristic of British English and old-fashioned American English. They are considered to be correct spellings, but are just not used much anymore. Whether they are mistakes or not, though, Bookshare volunteers are not authorized to do copy editing. If the actual book misspells a word it should be allowed to stand. If it is consistently spelled that way throughout the book then that is a strong clue that it is the way the book spelled it rather than it being a scanning error.
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To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:08 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Spelling Errors?
I'm working on a book which has the words, "travellers" and "travelling" spelled as I showed them here but Open Office Writer points them out as being miss-spelled and indicates the correct spelling is with a single 'l' in both cases. I'm rather a poor speller at times so am a bit unsure here. I'm assuming the spell check in OOo Writer is correct but if these words are consistently miss-spelled throughout the book, Should I fix them or should I leave them as being intended by the author? I would normally not change intentional bad grammar if that was the author's intent but what about words like these? I would tend towards correcting these in this case.What say you? To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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