Duelist; D-U-E-L-I-S-T . . . duelist
There's your spelling lesson Mr. Scott.
shareThat's the American spelling. You are an idiot for making a separate thread about it.
shareWell said.
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MovieChat Forums > The Duellists (1978) Discussion > Duelist; D-U-E-L-I-S-T . . . duelist
I suggest you study the variants in international varieties of English.
Duellist is used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, English speaking Africa, and possibly Canada.
Duelist is used in the USA, and possibly Canada.
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The dictionary does not agree with your claim. Both spellings are acceptable.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/duellist
I would have checked the dictionary first before posting.
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It's I-G-N-O-R-A-M-U-S.
There's YOUR spelling lesson, Mr. 655321.
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I agree with the OP. There is no grammatical reason to double the consonant after a diphthong in this case. That would imply pronouncing the L again like duel-list.
artist
pianist
abolitionist
Americans didn't invent English, but they streamlined it.
GP, if you're after logic and consistency in spelling, I think you're looking at the wrong language!
US and British English are both full of illogical spellings. How do you pronounce the word 'manor' (as in a big country-house and estate)? Surely it needs two n's, like 'manner' - with only one, logic tells us it should be 'may-nor'. Why aren't 'pull' and 'full' pronounced with a short 'u' like 'mull' and 'skull' and 'hull'? Why do you (in the US) say 'pedophile' with a short 'ped-', but pronounce 'orthopedic' with a long one (-peed-) - in both cases the 'ped' derives from the same Greek word?! I thought of those off the top of my head in two minutes - there are thousands of others.
PS The -ue- in 'duel' is not really a diphthong, though often sounded as such by lazy speakers in both the US & UK. Like most people I pronounce 'duel' with two syllables, though admittedly with a slight degree of elision; and it is shown in all dictionaries as having two.