Timelies all!

My deepest sympathies, Calli.

A spelling question. When I was young, the word judgement was spelled with the e in the middle. Still does, in my writing, so there. But apparently the "preferred" spelling is judgment. I've been paying attention, and apparently there are lots of people on the net who learned to spell the word the way I did. It could be "people on the net have horrible spelling" syndrome, but if it is it's just on that one word.

So, did some of us have British-based school systems? Who decided to excise the e? Can I claim my friend the e-in-judgement as a valid alternative?

Who decided to excise the e?

Noah Webster.

So how come it's stuck around? I wasn't taught to spell color "colour" but I was taught judgement.

I was taught judgment, and I still edit that e out at every opportunity.

Oooh! Edit cagematch!

I always put the e in, look at it, take it out, put it in, glare suspiciously at the word from many angles, and then try to use a different word.

When pressed, though, I leave the e in. It looks weird without it.

t edit I also never, EVER know if 'hilarious' has 1 L or 2. Ever. So I use a different word every. single. time.

I do whatever makes the red line under the word go away.

DebetEsse beat me to it. And yet there is a red line under her name. But I shall make it go away!

An article I'm writing uses the word "cancellation" a whole lot. The spell check on the computer at the office insists that "cancelation" is right and "cancellation" is wrong, contradicting every dictionary I've checked, both American and British. (British says "cancelation" is wrong. American says it's the less-preferred spelling. But the spelling that the British dictionaries say is correct and the American ones say is preferred is the one that that spell check insists is wrong.)