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Old 01-06-2004, 09:20 AM   #1 (permalink)
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100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

At yourDictionary.com.

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judgement

"Judgement" is governed by one of the rare rules of English orthography, so why not enjoy it? After [c] and [g], [e] is retained to indicate the letter is "soft," i.e. pronounced like [s] or [j], respectively. Omitting it indicates it is "hard," i.e. pronounced [k] or [g], as in "fragment," "pigment". If we write "management," "arrangement," we should write "judgement," "acknowledgement," "abridgement." The presence of the [d] is of no significance to English orthography.
though right in principle, is wrong in fact: the American spelling is "judgment", however anomalous that may be.

And there is an English word which is correctly spelled "calender", but it has nothing to do with dates...

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Intresting...

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interesting! thx for the link!

american english is different and more slang kind, the british english is the original one, our teacher always tells us both kind of writing, but he says the british one is absolutely better

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Actually most dictionaries, including Webster's, list both spellings of judg(e)ment.

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