Yeah, my wife just said to our daughter that she should be thankful that she’s learning English as her first language since it’s so complicated. I think this came up when we were explaining to her the appropriate contexts for using lose, loss, lost, and loose. She had been saying that she “losed” something.
In Great Britain and many of its former colonies, “judgement†is still the correct spelling; but ever since Noah Webster decreed the first E superfluous, Americans have omitted it. Many of Webster’s crotchets have faded away (each year fewer people use the spelling “theater,†for instance); but even the producers of Terminator 2: Judgment Day chose the traditional American spelling. If you write “judgement†you should also write “colour.â€
September 30th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Yeah, my wife just said to our daughter that she should be thankful that she’s learning English as her first language since it’s so complicated. I think this came up when we were explaining to her the appropriate contexts for using lose, loss, lost, and loose. She had been saying that she “losed” something.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
What about trying to explain the difference in spelling for though, enough and thorough??
October 5th, 2008 at 10:05 am
or pronouncing bomb, comb and tomb…
October 11th, 2008 at 1:37 am
what if it says “judg(e)ment” in my dictionary?
October 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Jan, I think the most common spelling is judgment.
October 13th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
In Great Britain and many of its former colonies, “judgement†is still the correct spelling; but ever since Noah Webster decreed the first E superfluous, Americans have omitted it. Many of Webster’s crotchets have faded away (each year fewer people use the spelling “theater,†for instance); but even the producers of Terminator 2: Judgment Day chose the traditional American spelling. If you write “judgement†you should also write “colour.â€
source: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/judgement.html
October 13th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Interesting. Thanks, Jan. That still doesn’t quite explain why we keep the ‘e’ in arrangement.