# Spelling: Traveling or Travelling?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-traveling-or-travelling/953900>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 6, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-traveling-or-travelling/953900 "2021-11-06T17:59:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-traveling-or-travelling/953900/61 "2022-01-21T02:08:57Z")

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Am I being whooshed?

(Reminds me of a funny little piece in a circa-1998 Slam Magazine listing NBA rushing leaders. Ewing had 4.5 yards per carry, as I recall).

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**Author:** ![filmstar-en](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@filmstar-en](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmstar-en)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-traveling-or-travelling/953900/62 "2022-01-21T02:47:14Z")

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Here are some of Noah’s Wins and Fails.

Traveling rather the Travelling was one of his wins

Wimmen rather than Women…not so much.

> **[Noah Webster's Spelling Wins and Fails](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/noah-websters-spelling-wins-and-fails/its-not-if-you-win-or-lose-but-how-you-spell-the-words)**
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> A look at his biggest successes and most crushing defeats

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-traveling-or-travelling/953900/63 "2022-01-21T12:08:44Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Am I being whooshed?

There are people who feel NBA officials overlook traveling calls.

(It was a joke)

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-traveling-or-travelling/953900/64 "2022-01-21T12:41:56Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> “Judgment” always trips me up. Seems like there should be an ‘e’ between the ‘g’ and the ‘m’.

I include the “e”. I even undid some “corrections” my boss made to a document i wrote because i believe it should have the “e”.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spelling-traveling-or-travelling/953900/65 "2022-01-21T12:58:36Z")

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Got it - thanks. As you can see, I agree. 🙂

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