“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.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |