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Originally Posted by noodle
"canceled" or "cancelled"?
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Cancelled, unless you are a part of the former British colony the United States of America.
Known colloquially as "the USA," this former colony has participated in a subtle yet noticeable degradation of the Queen's (aka Oxford) English. Much of this, however, has lost its significance with the advent of Internet slang and the "language" of text messaging, the majority of which was driven by these former colonists.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 07-22-2011 at 08:18 AM..
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