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There appears to be a growing confusion over how best to spell the inflections of the verb 'to benefit'. The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style says that benefit, vb., makes benefited and benefiting in AmE, benefitted and benefitting in BrE", whereas On-line Fowler (from the same publisher) says that the verb 'to benefit' "has inflected forms benefited, benefiting, with one t not two."
This is one of the 117 mis-spellings listed as 'Common difficulties' in the section on 'Spelling' within 'Writing' in UEfAP.
