judg(e)ment

Subject: judg(e)ment
From: Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- PACCAR -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 07:12:15 -0700

Melissa Lowery said

>the programmer had been consistent, but consistently wrong in spelling
>"judgment" -- a word that was everywhere in this system! When informed that
>"judgement" though it looks correct is not, the programmer subtly
questioned my
>intelligence!


Um... Every dictionary I've seen lists both forms as correct alternatives.

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