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Keep in mind that there are major differences in the use of double letters between British and American English. In each case below the British spelling occurs first, and the American spelling occurs second.
- abbreviate
- acceptable
- accidentally
- accommodate
- accompanying
- according
- aggravate
- aggression
- amend
- Andorra
- Anguilla
- apparent
- balloon
- becoming
- beginning
- bookkeeper
- broccoli
- business
- Caribbean
- catalogue — catalog
- cellophane
- chilli — chili (spice)
- chilly (cold)
- choose (pick out, select)
- chose (picked, selected)
- Cincinnati
- collectible
- committed
- committee
- commitment
- Connecticut
- coolly
- counselling — counseling
- decaffeinated
- desert (sandy place)
- desiccate (dry out, as in desiccated coconut)
- dessert (sweet treat)
- deterrence
- different
- difference
- dilemma
- disappear
- disappoint
- dissipate
- drunkenness
- dumbbell
- embarrass
- equalling — equaling
- espresso (coffee)
- exaggerate
- exceed
- excelling
- finally
- foresee
- fuelled — fueled
- fulfill
- generally
- guarantee
- Halloween
- happened
- happiness
- harass
- hoping (wishing)
- hopping (jumping)
- ideally
- illegal
- illiterate
- imitate
- immediate
- incidentally
- innate
- innocent
- inoculate
- intelligence
- irresistible
- jewellery — jewelry
- labelled — labeled
- lose (mislay)
- loneliness
- loose (untied)
- magically
- marshmallow
- matinee
- manatee
- Manhattan
- Massachusetts
- mayonnaise
- Mediterranean
- millennium
- millionaire
- miscellaneous
- missile
- Mississippi
- misspell
- modelling — modeling
- murmur
- naturally
- necessary
- occasion
- occasionally
- occurred
- occurrence
- official
- opportunity
- overrun
- omelette — omelet
- omission
- parallel
- pastime
- personnel
- Philippines
- Pittsburgh
- possession
- potassium
- precede (come before)
- preferable
- procedure
- proceed (begin or continue)
- professor
- programme — program
- publicly
- quarrelling — quarreling
- questionnaire
- really
- recommend
- reference
- referred
- Renaissance
- repetition
- roommate
- savvy
- scissors
- Seychelles
- sheriff
- signalling — signaling
- succeed
- success
- targetting — targeting
- threshold
- tomorrow
- travelling — traveling
- tyranny
- until
- usually
- vacuum
- valleys
- vilify
- wilful — willful
- zoology
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