Accomodate or accommodate?
Writing for Business
Which is correct?
According to Mike Cohn, Agile planning ___________ change by recognizing that it will occur.
a. accommodates
b. accomodates
Answer: a
Explanation:
Accommodate has double c’s and double m’s.
Yourdictionary.com suggests you remember it this way: Accommodate is large enough to accommodate both two c’s and two m’s. See the site for its list of the 100 most frequently misspelled words in English.
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