"Marshall" or "Marshal"? "Marshalling" or "Marshaling"?

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Sean picture Sean · Dec 14, 2010 · Viewed 21.1k times · Source

Which one is it in a programming context? Is there a difference? I've seen it both ways and I don't want to spell it wrong in my code.

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user166390 picture user166390 · Dec 14, 2010

Marshal (one l) is correct in English. However, both Marshalling or Marshaling are correct.

Marshalling (with two lls) "seems to make more sense" in my American-English mind as it softens the "a" explicitly.

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