#Spell book of judgment update

It only turns into a hard g in cases of a, o or u. From what I understand, g remains soft when followed by both e as well as i. To ensure the d-g are combined together and sounded “j,” we required a separater in the form of an “e.” Therefore: “judgement.”Ībout “bingeing,” “impingeing,” droping the e won’t convert the soft g into hard. “Judgment” is more prone to mispronunciation: the d-g-m may be sounded as “duggum,” “dugm,” “gum” or simply “dum,” depending on the reader. I think that in context the spelling caching works. Dropping the e in those words calls forth a hard g pronunciation. I just don’t agree with Fowler that it’s more “reasonable” than judgment.Īs for dropping the e from bingeing and cringeing, the speller checker is definitely wrong. I agree that judgement looks better with the e.

And maybe I’ll go back to putting the “e” in judgement! According to your rule, it would seem that those “e”s need to be in there (not dropped before a vowel), so I’m sticking with doing it my way. I am also kind of a stickler about “bingeing,” “impingeing” and “cringeing,” but my spellchecker snags me and prefers to drop the “e” it prefers “impinging,” (I do a lot of medical transcription and that’s a fairly common word in Orthopedics and Neurosurgery). I always preferred to keep the “e” in “judgement,” because seeing all those consonants in a row in the middle there (“dgm”) was kind of overwhelming to me…I think I just needed the “e” in there for a break…but my spellchecker kept hounding me, so I switched to “judgment.” I don’t like it. Five Spelling Rules for 'Silent Final E'įunny, to look at the word “caching,” it seems as if it might be pronounced like “catching,” or even “ka-CHING!”.Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Spelling category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below: The word cache follows the rule and drops the e to give caching. I would like to know whether, I can use the term: “cacheing.” Example: Google is cacheing my website/page. Still, these are useful guidelines for spelling the many words that end in silent/mute e.įor example, reader Suresh was wondering about adding a suffix to the word cache: I suppose it’s because I’m an American, but I can’t see any reason to keep the e before a consonant if it’s not needed to soften the g. RULE: When a suffix is added to a word ending in mute e, the mute e is dropped before a vowel, but not before a consonant.ĮXCEPTION TO THE RULE: The e is kept even before a vowel if it is needed to preserve or emphasize the soft sound of a preceding g or c. The words abridgement/abridgment and acknowledgement/acknowledgment follow the same British/American dichotomy as judgement/judgment.įowler offers a rule and an exception to the rule for dealing with words ending with a Mute e: Merriam-Webster prefers judgment and lists judgement as a variant. That venerable pronouncing dictionary by Daniel Jones covers both bases by printing the entry word as judg(e)ment.

The OED still prefers judgement, but acknowledges judgment as a variant spelling. Not wanting to rely solely on an online source, I also looked it up in the First Folio:Ī Daniel come to iudgement, yea, a Daniel. I found it online at the Literature Network:Ī Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! Wanting to see how Shakespeare spelled it, I looked up that line in The Merchant of Venice in which Shylock praises Portia, thinking she is ruling in his favor. Judgement is therefore here recommended… –Fowler p. Judgement is the form sanctioned in the Revised Version of the Bible, & the OED prefers the older & more reasonable spelling. Nevertheless, Fowler and the OED preferred judgement: According to Fowler “modern usage” favored judgment. Fowler was writing his influential book on usage, the spelling judgment was evidently being used by a lot of British writers. Yes, I’d have to say that judgement is British spelling and judgment American, but in the early twentieth century when H. You’re probably going to tell me this is a ‘judgment call’, but I’m still wondering why the two spellings.

#Spell book of judgment update

Is one English and the other American? What a bother! If both are OK, I guess I could update my dictionary by adding the ‘judgement’ spelling – but doing so might lend assistance to spelling inconsistencies. His Word application flags judgement as an incorrect spelling, but when he searches the word online,īoth judgement and judgment occur with seeming equal frequency. Reader John Moss wonders about the spellings judgement and judgment.