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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Gary.Foster@Corp.Sun.COM (Gary D. Foster) writes:
>> hm--html-keys.el, hm--html-menus.el, and hm--html.el has formatting
>> and formatted spelled as "formating" and "formated" in numerous
>> places.

> My Ispell says that both are correct.

So does mine, but they're both wrong.

> "FORMATING is correct because of root FORMAT"

> "FORMATTING is correct"

> Is this an Ispell bug, or an English spelling subtlety I'm not aware
> of.

It's an English spelling subtlety.  The usual rule (as I was taught
it) is `double one c [consonant] after one v [vowel] if accented be'.
This works in nearly every case with a handful of exceptions.

A normal word like transmit, which has an accented second syllable gets
the `t' doubled when adding -ed, `transmitted', -ing, `transmitting',
etc.  Format with the accent on the first syllable shouldn't have the
final consonant doubled, therefore having one `t' should be correct.  It
happens to be one of the exceptions to the rule.

Signal is another funny one.  The `correcter' spelling is signaled,
signaling, etc.  Webster's indicates signalled and signalling are also 
acceptable.
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