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The past tense of the word "travel", spelt "traveled or travelled"?

Please tell me if this sentence is correct!

"Has anyone travel(l)ed by them before?"

Thanks in advance! Just need some clarification.

MountainHiker · Accepted Answer

Guest,

Both traveled and travelled are correct. Just a modeling and modelling are correct. I verified these spellings by using GuruNet which in turns uses The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

For what it is worth, I prefer using just a single "l".

1) Has anyone traveled by them before?

To me, that means either a) near them? or b) using them?

1a) Has anyone traveled near their location before?

1b) Has anyone traveled using their services before? (Has anyone traveled using ABC JetCo before? Or even more simply, "Has anyone used ABC JetCo before?")

I would use form 1a or 1b so that your sentence is a bit clearer.

Hope that helps.

MountainHiker

CalifJim · Answer

In American English the endings -ing and -ed are added directly to words like 'travel' and 'worship' without doubling the final consonant. The final consonant is doubled before adding the ending in British English.

American dictionaries often give both variants (undoubled first) since the user of such a dictionary is likely to encounter the forms with the doublings in material published outside of the U.S.

I don't know the practice used in British dictionaries.

But what are "words like 'travel' and 'worship'"?

What I mean by "words like that" is verbs that have 'consonant - vowel - consonant' as the last three letters and are NOT stressed on that final syllable.

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