when I start the car, the warning on the Navigation bootup screen spells judgment "JUDGEMENT" pretty big mistake don't you think?


Jose

 

according to www.dictionary.com ... both are the same word

 

I'm not sure I have ever seen it spelled without an "e" and I know spellcheck accepts it with an "e" so it has to be legit!

 

It bothers the f*** out of me too. In school I was always taught that it was wrong with that E in the middle, but over the years I've seen it with that E so often that I figured it had become accepted.

When I see it spelled the way I learned it, it seems "smarter." Kinda like when you see "minuscule" spelled right, which is like never.

Or "Albuquerque."

 

If you went to school in America, then you was taught good. Judgment with an E in the middle is the British way of spelling it, like centre and theatre vs. how we spell them.

Another spelling that gets to me is "cancelled." One L for us, 2 LL's for the British. I actually don't even know where the extra L comes from, it's not like you spell cancel as cancell, and every other word ending with a single L doesn't gain an extra L when it's in the past tense.

And for the longest time, I thought people from the Philippines were Philippinos. It made sense to me, I didn't even think that the correct spelling for someone from the Phillippines was Filipino (notice you also lose a P).

 

Devilled eggs.

Labelled.

(Both of these can be either way, but I think the single "L" is preferred although IMO it looks funny and I always use the double L.)

And then there's, "I palled around with him...." I think the double L is the only correct way, although sometimes you see it the other way.
But as long as we're talking about 2-syllable words (which I think you were), probably the single L is always preferrred.

 

Pen, penned
Whip, whipped
Gun, gunned
Flog, flogged
Beg, begged
etc.

The consonant doubling is the rule. Not doubling it (canceled, traveled) is the exception.

I too was bothered by "judgement" until I looked it up on dictionary.com a month ago and saw that the middle E was acceptable. I don't recall seeing them mention that it was chiefly British (though they don't always include that kinda info) and I don't feel like checking now.

 

Hey, hey -- he said L, not N or P or G or consonants in general!

Anyway, he seems to have meant 2-syllable words, and I think that in that case the "non-doubled" form is preferred, for ANY consonant.

Ooops! -- "Preferred"!

Make that 2-syllable words where the accent is on the first syllable. I think that'll do it.

 

But those are not with the letter L, which was what I wrote. I know other words double in consonants when in the past tense. Besides, if it's the exception, then why are the British following the doubling rule for it?

 

It's the same thing. In America, it's supposed to be labeled (I've never seen it spelled with 2 L's in any American literature). For example, looking in the dictionary you will see that both theater and theatre are acceptable, but we don't go to the theatre, we go to the theater.