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Probably around the same time I learned spelt is a type of wheat.
Underrated comment.
I was born in the US. Until reading this thread about it's legal usage, I would have assumed the one without the 'e' was a mistake.
it’s not just legal usage; in AmE it’s supposed to not have an e anywhere
I grew up with the 'e' in there, at least so far as I can remember. That I consider the version without an 'e' to be wrong would reenforce that.
It's both. Judgment is common in North American and British English. Judgement is fine, but not for legal proceedings. https://grammarist.com/spelling/judgment-judgement/
Canadian here. There's nothing wrong with the shortened American spelling of words. They're perfectly understandable and more efficient. We should be doing it with a ton more words with silent letters. Y'all should be more like Canadians and just understand and accept all the spellings and pronunciations.
That said, I will continue to use my extra u's.
Also using both metric AND imperial at the same time
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Color and armor don't contain a "u" over here either.
They had to remove the u because Colour has OUR and it sounded too "communist"
/j
Looked up: Terminator: Judgement Day
Google Autocorrected me.
Also not sure if this is exactly an open ended discussion question... and why "Americans" specifically? 🤔
I believe that the general convention in both British and American English
though I'm sure that it's not consistently followed everywhere
is to use "the other guy's" spellings for proper nouns for things that were named on the other side of the Atlantic. Like, we in the US will normally refer to the British "Labour Party", even though that's not how we spell "labor".
goes looking for a British movie poster for Terminator 2
This says that it's a British poster, and it has no "e":
https://www.vintagemovieposters.co.uk/shop/terminator-2-judgement-day-movie-poster-5/
You likely want to choose an example where the term isn't part of a proper noun.
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