Words You Misspell

[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.