Spelling: Replace "cancelled" with "canceled"

I am not so sure about this. The word 'cancelled' is in the cspell American dictionary, yarn cspell trace cancelled. And this article from Merriam Webster explains the history and why both are acceptable in American English.

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As an American I use two “l”s.

Please review.

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@shivamsen_12579 and @ravi kant, there is no agreement on the solution here, see #5. We should decide if the change should be made first.

I agree, both "canceled" and "cancelled" are present in the Drupal codebase, which introduces inconsistency.

This issue indeed needs a fix to align with the American English standard set by Drupal’s style guide and to maintain consistency across the codebase. The community should agree on this change, implement it, and update relevant documentation.

I still disagree with this.

As stated in the Issue Summary the Drupal Style Guide does not have an example for the word 'canceled'. There is no evidence on this issue that the version 'canceled' is a standard. The recommended resources to use are provided on Content style guide → . When searching those resources both the American Heritage Dictionary and the American Oxford shows both 'canceled' and 'cancelled' as acceptable.

I see no reason to change something that the dictionaries accept. And, especially, when there are many misspelled words in dictionary.txt that need to be fixed.

I think this is a won't fix.

shivamsen_12579 → closed merge request !8112

Every single one of these (the top 5 search results when I search for "canceled or cancelled") says that American English prefers "canceled".

• Merriam-Webster
• Grammarly
• Dictionary.com
• Grammar
• GrammarBook.com

Certainly, both tend to be accepted and sources even say so. Americans maybe don't know how it's spelled, so they guess, and it's obvious which word they mean. But all the sources I found say that one L is preferred.

Here is the Google ngram comparison. There is a dropdown to choose British English or American English. "canceled" has been more popular in American English since ~1990.

Perhaps I can't spell. The New York Times uses one "l".