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Daxiaoaixad Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

relabelling or relabeling

Dear All,

LEO says that labeling is BE, and labelling is AE. Can I extend this to relabel:

relabeling is BE and relabelling is AE?

Daxiaoaixad
  

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You have them round the wrong way: "labelling" is BrE and "labeling" is AmE. Yes, you can extend this to "relabel". )

— Mr Wordy

  • You have them round the wrong way: "labelling" is BrE and "labeling" is AmE.
  • Yes, you can extend this to "relabel".
  • )
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You have them round the wrong way: "labelling" is BrE and "labeling" is AmE.

Yes, you can extend this to "relabel". This is always the case with derived forms ("re-", "un-" , "pre-", etc.)
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