User:Roger Davies/EngVar

This is intended to be a quick guide, offering spelling equivalences. This is not intended as a discussion of nuanced difference in meaning; these may be added later with alert tags or footnotes. Where two spellings are given, the headword in the sources comes first, followed by the variant.

General vocabulary

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 * + English Variant Spellings: General

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 * -ise surprise, advise etc
 * -ise
 * -Unchanged in both Oxford and Cambridge spelling
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 * -ization industrialization etc
 * -ize
 * -Oxford keeps –ization ending. Cambridge uses –isation ending.
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 * -ize recognize etc
 * -ize
 * -Oxford keeps –ize endings. Cambridge uses –ise endings.
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 * aging, ageing
 * ageing, aging
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 * analyze, analysis
 * -yze
 * analyse, analysis
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 * artifact
 * artefact
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 * ax, axe
 * axe
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 * behavior
 * behaviour
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 * center, centered, centering
 * centre, centred, centring, centered, centering
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 * color, colored, coloring
 * colour, coloured, colouring
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * defense, defensive
 * defence, defensive
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 * dialog
 * se / ce
 * dialog (computer), dialogue (other usages)
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * disk
 * disk (computer), disc (other usages)
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 * endeavor, endeavoring
 * se / ce
 * dialog (computer), dialogue (other usages)
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 * disk
 * disk (computer), disc (other usages)
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * endeavor, endeavoring
 * endeavor, endeavoring


 * endeavour, endeavouring
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 * drag, dragging, dragged, drug†
 * drag, dragging, dragged
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * favor, favorable, favored, favoring, favorite
 * favour, favourable, favoured, favouring, favourite
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 * fit (simple past)
 * fitted
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 * flavor, flavored, flavoring
 * flavour, flavoured, flavouring
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * gotten (past participle)
 * got
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 * governor, governorship
 * governor, governorship
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * gray, grey
 * grey, gray
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * harbor, habored, harboring
 * harbour, haboured, harbouring
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * honor, honorable, honored
 * honour, honourable, honoured
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * humor, humorous
 * humour, humorous
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * jewelry
 * jewellery
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * judgment
 * judgement
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 * labor
 * labour
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * license (n); license (v), licensed, licensing
 * se / ce
 * licence (n); license (v), licensed, licensing
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 * math
 * maths
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 * maneuver, maneuvered, maneuvering (also manoeuver etc)
 * Oe > e
 * manoeuvre, manoeuvred, manoeuvring
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 * misspelled
 * misspelled, misspelt
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 * model, modeled, modeling
 * model, modelled, modelling
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 * neighbor, neighborhood, neighboring, neighborly
 * neighbour, neighbourhood, neighbouring, neighbourly
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * offense, offensive
 * offence, offensive
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * panel, paneled, paneling
 * panel, panelled, panelling
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * practice (v); practice (n)
 * se/ce
 * practise (v); practice (n)
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * program
 * m / mme
 * program (computer), programme (other usages)
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 * skeptic, skeptical, skepticism
 * sceptic, sceptical, scepticism
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 * snuck
 * sneaked
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 * specialty
 * speciality
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 * splendor
 * splendour
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 * story, stories (building)
 * storey, storeys (building)
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 * theater, theatre, theatrical, theatrically
 * theatre, theatrical, theatrically
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 * tire (n)
 * tyre
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 * travel, traveler, traveling
 * travel, traveller, travelling
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 * valor, valorous, valorously
 * o(u)r
 * valour, valorous, valorously
 * }
 * speciality
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * splendor
 * splendour
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * story, stories (building)
 * storey, storeys (building)
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * theater, theatre, theatrical, theatrically
 * theatre, theatrical, theatrically
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * tire (n)
 * tyre
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * travel, traveler, traveling
 * travel, traveller, travelling
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * valor, valorous, valorously
 * o(u)r
 * valour, valorous, valorously
 * }
 * travel, traveller, travelling
 * - bgcolor="#faf6ed"
 * valor, valorous, valorously
 * o(u)r
 * valour, valorous, valorously
 * }


 * † = Dialect (deprecated)

Medical & Scientific

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 * + English Variant Spellings: Medical & Scientific

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 * aluminum
 * aluminium
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 * celiac
 * coeliac
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 * edema
 * oedema
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 * sulfur
 * sulphur
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