ON NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am such a nitpicker when it comes to spelling and I misspelled a SPELLING WORD! Aaaahhhhh!!!!
I check and double-check all the time! I can't believe I missed it!
Very embarassed over here!
THERE IS ONE "L" IN MARVELOUSLY!
Yours in shame,
Andy
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SvaraRaderaI noticed "marvelously" seemed to be misspelled when I first looked at the word list, and our Miriam-Webster dictionary app backed me up. But the next day, I wanted to be sure I wasn't telling Jaxon to practice spelling the word wrong so I looked online. According to Collins and a number of other dictionaries, it is a British versus American spelling. Roald Dahl, obviously, spelled it the British way.
SvaraRaderahttp://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/marvellously
Oh, well, I guess I'll go see some theatre about the flavour and colour of gray...
SvaraRaderaWiki
Doubled in British English:
The final consonant of an English word is sometimes doubled in both American and British spelling when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel, for example strip/stripped, which prevents confusion with stripe/striped and shows the difference in pronunciation (see digraph). Generally, this happens only when the word's final syllable is stressed and when it also ends with a lone vowel followed by a lone consonant. In British English, however, a final -l is often doubled even when the final syllable is unstressed.[62] This exception is no longer usual in American English, seemingly because of Noah Webster.[63] The -ll- spellings are nevertheless still deemed acceptable variants by both Merriam-Webster Collegiate and American Heritage dictionaries.
The British English doubling is used for all inflections (-ed, -ing, -er, -est) and for the noun suffixes -er and -or. Therefore, British English usage is cancelled, counsellor, cruellest, labelled, modelling, quarrelled, signalling, traveller, and travelling. Americans usually use canceled, counselor, cruelest, labeled, modeling, quarreled, signaling, traveler, and traveling.