2007-10-21 20:21:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
If the preceding respondents were all British (I doubt that's the case), they're fine. And for that matter, Americans will probably not be corrected on this.
But, in fact, there is an American-British difference in the spelling rules. The general spelling habits of AMERICAN English would call for "worshiped", whereas the British would spell it "worshipped".
Minor evidence (which those before me must have missed, or perhaps scratched their heads at). If you type "worshipped" in the answer box, it is marked as an ERROR by Yahoo's built-in spell check! ("Worshiped", on the other hand, is accepted.)
At any rate. . . Americans who use the double p likely do so by analogy with "shipped", and other one-syllable words that double consonants before endings that begin with a vowel ("hitting", "muddy", "nabbed", etc). But they don't quite know the "rule" they're applying. (And I don't blame them. I don't believe my teachers ever explained this to me either.)
In reality, the American rule is this:
‘double a single consonant letter at the end of any base where the preceding vowel is spelled with a single letter and stressed’.
http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-worshipped-worshiped.asp
Note, you double the consonant after an ACCENTED syllable. That, of course, is always the case with one-syllable words like "ship", and all the other words they used to illustrate it in grade school. But in the case of "worship" the accent is on the first syllable (not "ship"). In this case you ordinarily do NOT double the consonant.
So, applying the rule to words of more than one syllable, we get:
profiting, entering (syllable is not accented)
BUT beginning (GIN is accented)
(There are other oddities involving specific letters. Read through the page linked above to see more about these.)
2007-10-22 06:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
worshipped is correct
2007-10-23 06:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by sakh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
worshipped
2007-10-21 23:48:18 · answer #3 · answered by red_polka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
worshipped
2007-10-21 21:27:21 · answer #4 · answered by raindrops 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
worshipped
2007-10-21 20:39:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
worshipped
2007-10-21 20:23:26 · answer #6 · answered by hurricane197 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do u need any more answers, I spell it as worshipped according to grammar.
2007-10-21 21:39:43 · answer #7 · answered by nazbak 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion, typically directed to a supernatural being such as God, a god or goddess. i go with worshipped
2007-10-22 06:32:17 · answer #8 · answered by boyzmadison 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"worshipped"
2007-10-22 18:21:41 · answer #9 · answered by vinsha_goldie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Worshipped" because there is no vowel after the present tense "worship".
2007-10-21 20:24:51 · answer #10 · answered by Nicky 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋