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Maverick88 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Enroll

I can see that two ways of spelling this word are posible:
enroL and enroLL. What's the difference? Where is each one used?
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Hi, M! I don't see any "anrol" in the dictionnary!

  • Hi, M!
  • I don't see any "anrol" in the dictionnary!
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Hi, M!
I don't see any "anrol" in the dictionnary!
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I am sorry, Pieanne, it was a typo. I've modified it now. It's ENROL and ENROLL.
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Well, can't help you here, they're both in the dictionnary with the same and only one definition!
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Does anyone have an idea?
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Maybe "enroll" has appeared because people don't make mistakes when they use it in the
-ing and -ed form?
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Maybe... But why hasn't it happened then to any other words? I hope dictionarues wouldn't consider people's mistakes as correct langage-transformations.
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Yes, but the uncreasing use of some words that maybe weren't in any dictionary makes them appear in a dictionary. The use creates the existence and the recognition.
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Well, as far as I know,
- to enrol and enrolment are rather used in the UK and the Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, ...)
- to enroll and enrollment in the USA.

But you can use enrol in US English, too, but it's not so common.
So, it's your choice, choose what you like best.

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