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[anfractuousity]

Wtf. "Jewellery" is actually a legitimate way to spell "jewelry"? I googled it after I saw the tag on the earrings entry below. Is that a non-American thing? Or just a somewhat archaic spelling? Or it's not archaic but it's just not well known? O_o

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[yuriko]

Jewelry is used more often here but I've seen jewellery fairly commonly as well.

[brokentowels]

I've found that everywhere that is an English speaking country that isn't in North America spells it "jewellery". Incidentally, I was a little confused the first time I saw "jewelry", I thought there was just a lot of people who could not spell... o____o

[anfractuousity]

"I thought there was just a lot of people who could not spell"

Basically! I was like "Good lord, who created that tag??" and then I googled to check and see if it really was incorrect, and apparently it's not! =P

[toppertje]

Right?

I can honestly say I have never seen jewellery spelled jewelry before in my life.

[anakngtinapa]

Yeah, I thought it's just jewelry too. Another thing I learned from AMA.

[anthylorrel]

I always spelled it jewellery until recently.

[ululare]

I've seen it both ways and I live in the US.

[hashishinahooka]

Me too, and I always had trouble figure out which way was the correct way.

I don't know why, but I apparently spell a lot of words the British way, and I don't know how that happened. Spell check hates me.

[bdoing]

Try living in Canada, where we're SUPPOSED to use about half British and half American. And spellchecks are always either/or. :(

But yeah, this -- I actually have to think about it before spelling it any time I use it.

[hashishinahooka]

I've always wonder if the bit of British English I used trickled down from Canada.