Why does Siri incorrectly spell CANCELLED?

Wow, it is beta software. Apple has said that it is beta software from the start. That means that it is not perfrct, it is a work in progress. It may just be an error in the dictionary Siri uses. You are making a national crisis out of nothing.

It would be interesting to know if there is only one Spanish version.......

...which is kind of the point. Languages change and always have variations. What are lazily referred to as "Americanisms" usually turn out to be traditional English terms which may have been dropped in the "mother country" but carried on being used by its diaspora. Anyway the world won't end because of the loss of that rather arbitrary and counter-intuitive second "L" in "cancelled".

I am prepared to draw the line at "gotten" though.......😉

paulppp wrote:

Is there anything we can do to get them to change these things?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Usually the most that we get from software is some form of generic Latin American Spanish, which is based on the Andalusian of the common Spanish soldiers during the period of the Conquest, or Castilian, for the folks in Spain. It would be a lot of work to provide regional/national language resources for the Spanish that is influenced by the various indigenous languages of each Latin American nation.

Fortunately, with the exception of the silent H, every letter is pronounced in Spanish, so there are no varied spelling conventions in the Diaspora. If you can pronounce the word correctly, in spite of regional accents, you can spell the word. Undereducated folks often do not realize that a word contains the silent H and misspell by leaving it out.

In Spanish we do have the Association of Spanish Language Academies, made of the national Spanish academies of 22 Spanish speaking nations. The US is represented by two academies, a newer one for the US in general and a separate, older academy in Puerto Rico. The Association coordinates major descisions for the language as a whole, especially the official admission of new words into the common dictionary.

As a grammar snob from the other side of the pond, that would really annoy me too if it were the other way around. :-)

Now that I really think about it, the second "L" isn't counter-intuitive. It should keep the "E" from being long.

BTW as we were discussing this, "spelt" brought me up short and set off my inner proofreader. That kinda (sic) proves the point, doesn't it?