Grammar Bomb: Judgement VS Judgment

The judge will tell you to get rid of the “e” in your judgment.

#GrammarBombEA

 

Judgement [THINK: error (E)]
Judgment [THINK: ruling (no E)]

 

“Many think that the difference between judgement and judgment is that the longer version is the British spelling, whereas the shorter one is the convention in the US. While some claim that Noah Webster first recorded the spelling of judgment in his 1828 American Dictionary of the English Languagejudgment has been the prevailing spelling on both sides of the pond since the late 1600s.”

[read more about it on blog.dictionary.com]

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