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-|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''instalment'''<br />This is a tricky one.  ''Intstalment'' derives from the UK-only way of spelling ''install'', ''instal''.  The British tend to use ''install'' as the base for most other forms of the word, just like Americans do.  So ''installing'', ''installed'' etc. are seen as correct by at least ''some'' Britons.  But ''instalment'' is, for whatever reasons, firmly seen as the absolutely correct British spelling.
+|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''instalment'''<br />This is a tricky one.  ''Instalment'' derives from the UK-only way of spelling ''install'', ''instal''.  The British tend to use ''install'' as the base for most other forms of the word, just like Americans do.  So ''installing'', ''installed'' etc. are seen as correct by at least ''some'' Britons.  But ''instalment'' is, for whatever reasons, firmly seen as the absolutely correct British spelling.
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