Timeline for Is the spelling 'judgment' a feature of American English? (As opposed to the other -dg[e]ment words?)
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| Jun 19 at 11:42 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Why is 'Bridgnorth' always spelled without an 'e' then? Why 'mileage' not 'milage'? And we certainly don't want to drop the 'e' in 'singeing'. // Why isn't 'aubrieta' always spelled the way it sounds (to rhyme with 'freesia' in the UK at least)? Or really, why is it pronounced differently from the logical spelling (after Claude Aubriet)? ... The rules of English are often idiosyncratic; saying 'it should be done this way' is usually hyperprescriptive. And there's usually someone else saying 'No, this way', often equally arrogatively. | |
| Jun 19 at 10:44 | comment | added | Stuart F | I guess you don't attribute common sense to the good folks at Merriam-Webster? (Also a lot of -ment words come directly from French or Latin, and are determined by the rules of that language - it's armament not armment.) | |
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| S Jun 19 at 9:35 | history | answered | Ted | CC BY-SA 4.0 |