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Thread #60703   Message #975044
Posted By: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
02-Jul-03 - 07:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Commonly misspelled/mispronounced words
Subject: RE: BS: Commonly misspelled/mispronounced words
The officially correct spelling "[un]paralleled".

According to the normal patterns of [British and Irish] English this should be "[un]parallelled". My guess is that people who can spell are so proud to show that they know that there is a single "l" at the end of the adjective "parallel" that they overcompensate and fail to double it where they should do so.