Did Pullman really spell "wagon" with 2 G's?

[horsebrackets]

Waggon?
Is that a typo?

[grapplehoeker]

Both "wagon" and "waggon" are acceptable English. However, "waggon" was more commonly used up until a century ago and "wagon" has now become the predominant spelling.
Please see:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=waggon&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cwaggon%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bwaggon%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BWaggon%3B%2Cc0

[horsebrackets]

ahh, thank you for the history lesson!
I love learning new things.

That extra G was driving my inner English teacher bonkers, but i'll have my inner History teacher give her a talking-to.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by horsebrackets:

ahh, thank you for the history lesson!
I love learning new things.

Heh, you're welcome, me too...
Out of curiosity, I wondered if the poor G has also fallen away from "flagon" and yes, it appears that "flaggon" has also died away.
It makes me wonder if someday in the future, other words such as "baggage" and "luggage" will also drop the G.
Poor old G ;)

[GordonDry]

Hmm. ♥♥♥♥♥?

[GordonDry]

Well, indeed. Even with one g it's censored by the woke cancel culture blacklist.

[CHMS]

Some of the spelling "laws" seem to be the capitulation of the politics to the dumbness of the students...

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by GordonDry:

Well, indeed. Even with one g it's censored by the woke cancel culture blacklist.

That's an interesting one, because it appears that the original spelling with two G's has begun a resurgence since the 1980's after having died out at the beginning of the 20th century.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=♥♥♥♥♥♥&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=26&smoothing=7&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cfaggot%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bfaggot%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BFaggot%3B%2Cc0#t4%3B%2Cfaggot%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bfaggot%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BFaggot%3B%2Cc0
I have always used two G's for that word but only applied it to its original meaning for bent twigs or sticks, and of course to the British meatball in gravy... delicious!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)

[Metacritical]

Originally posted by GordonDry:

Well, indeed. Even with one g it's censored by the woke cancel culture blacklist.

we have idiot bingo!

[horsebrackets]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by horsebrackets:

ahh, thank you for the history lesson!
I love learning new things.

Heh, you're welcome, me too...
Out of curiosity, I wondered if the poor G has also fallen away from "flagon" and yes, it appears that "flaggon" has also died away.
It makes me wonder if someday in the future, other words such as "baggage" and "luggage" will also drop the G.
Poor old G ;)

I hope lugage and bagage never hapen.

[Huperspace]

https://grammarist.com/spelling/wagon-waggon/

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by horsebrackets:

I hope lugage and bagage never hapen.

You just had to take a pee, didn't you ;)

[Yeol]

Waggon is one of the Dutch words that made it into the English (and French) vocabulary. And indeed "waggon" is written in Dutch with 2 g's. The double g in English looks horrible, and so it disappeared over time. But so now and then it emerges again, like now in TpF.

[GordonDry]

The "other dutch" - so "german" - also uses two g's.

[start214]

Originally posted by Yeol:

Waggon is one of the Dutch words that made it into the English (and French) vocabulary. And indeed "waggon" is written in Dutch with 2 g's. The double g in English looks horrible, and so it disappeared over time. But so now and then it emerges again, like now in TpF.

Correction Yeol, 'wagon' in Dutch is written with one 'g' ;)

[Yeol]

In the 19th century Dutch, the time when the word "waggon" was adopted in the English vocabulary, it was written with 2 g's. Sorry for the confusion with the today's Dutch spelling of "wagon" (or wagen) with one g. ;)