Sunday, November 05, 2006

Judge not lest ye be judged

I received the email below from an anonymous, but no doubt fond, reader:

It's judgment. Can't you spell? (you idiot is implied)
I assume he/she was referring my use of the word in a previous post. My response is: I AM THE NAG AND I AM CANADIAN!

Here is what Jeremy Smith has to say about judgement/judgment in The American·British British·American Dictionary for English Speaking People :


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. If you write “judgement” you should also write “colour".

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