Words You Misspell

[sparrow]

i spell "can't" as "cand" but this is a typing problem mostly

[Polnareff]

Either spelling of "judgment/judgement" is acceptable.

NO NO NO NO NO

The e at the end of the verb "judge" stays there when you add -ment because it indicates that the g is a soft sound. It's the same with the word "changeable." Spelling it "judgment" would mean it could be interpreted as being phonetically pronounced jud-gə-mənt. (The upside-down e, or schwa, is pronounced like a cross between the short vowel sounds of e and i, or in other words, in-between the e in "tent" and the i in "mint")

Yes yes yes yes yes.

Even the dictionary notes that both spellings are acceptable. This is one of those rare words where you can actually lop off the letter at the end and still add the "-ment" suffix.

Something I forgot to mention is, the reason both spellings are correct is because in the US, the "judgment" spelling is actually the widely-used one (though you won't get faulted for spelling it with an "e"), whereas, say, in England, you can use either one, though both have slightly different meanings.

I would know this because I'm a huge language nerd.

[Shorty]

Philip and I are arguing about the proper spelling of "yogurt".

[Denmark]

there's no h because that's not how it's pronounced (i.e. it's spelled "yogurt"). argument solved

[Jiro]

Judgement is the correct spelling in all nations who still honour the one true Queen. Phonetics is hardly a source of evidence for how the English language should operate as well; have you seen how phonetics is spelt?

[Tigmafuzz]

Something I forgot to mention is, the reason both spellings are correct is because in the US, the "judgment" spelling is actually the widely-used one (though you won't get faulted for spelling it with an "e"), whereas, say, in England, you can use either one, though both have slightly different meanings.

I would know this because I'm a huge language nerd.

NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN. If you were a language nerd, you would know the only reason that it's considered to be spelled correctly that way in the US is because Noah Webster didn't like "extraneous vowels" and cut some out, and Roosevelt ordered that his versions of words be used during the Spanish-American war to save ink supplies. I'm not going to conform to one man's opinion of how words should be spelt. I actually gave away a few dictionaries because they only included one version of spelling of some words, and they were wrong. I probably should've burned them to prevent other people from referring to them and getting their incorrectness all over the place.



("Spelt" isn't included in firefox's dictionary? For shame, Mozilla.)

Judgement is the correct spelling in all nations who still honour the one true Queen. Phonetics is hardly a source of evidence for how the English language should operate as well; have you seen how phonetics is spelt?

I see nothing wrong with the phonetics of the word phonetics

Also, don't forget that a lot of words in English aren't just based on other languages (like the word phonetics ), they're completely stolen from them. Like confetti, which is actually Italian for candy. Also "berserk" (Norse word meaning bear-shirt, used to describe Viking warriors like Rantz) and "assassin" (the name of a secret Arabic order of trained killers).

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Regarding the yogurt/yoghurt thing, I don't think the original Turkish word had any definitive spelling, so both could be considered correct. I prefer yogurt though, because adding an h makes it look dumb.

[Jiro]

Yoghurt is a great name because it, like ice cream, is consumed in great quantities when suffering emotion pain.

[Raistlin]

The only reason "judgement" is now considered acceptable is because so many morons kept misspelling "judgment."

Also, "yogurt" is correct.

[Chris]

From my thread last year:

It can actually be spelled both "yoghurt" and "yogurt". I gather that the latter is the most commenly used in the United States? "Yoghourt" is actually a third alternative, and many fuse the two and spell it "Yogourt".

[Laddy]

i spell "can't" as "cand" but this is a typing problem mostly

Dear God I hope so.

[Bubba]

Annihilate.

I say it all the time in normal conversation but have no idea how to type it... like just now.

[Mirage]

annie late!

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

Judgement or Judgment? - article

The more you know

[Tigmafuzz]

Judgement or Judgment? - article

The more you know

[q]
RULE: When a suffix is added to a word ending in mute e, the mute e is dropped before a vowel, but not before a consonant.
EXCEPTION TO THE RULE: The e is kept even before a vowel if it is needed to preserve or emphasize the soft sound of a preceding g or c.[/q]

[Jiro]

smurfing exceptions. Why have rules if there are a million exceptions to the smurfing rules?

inb4 I just started a troutstorm