From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 18:31:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] CodingGuidelines: typofix Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140501212714.GB14441@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > If you want to fix something here, do s/judgement/judgment/ instead. >> >> That too. > > FWIW, neither is outright wrong; it is an America/British variation, and > apparently dictionaries disagree on which is preferred. My reading of various "grammar" sites was that even though variation exists[*1*], the form without 'e' is the traditionally preferred form, and that is why I said "That too". But let's follow this one: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=judgement%20call%2C%20judgment%20call&cmpt=q which seems to say that with 'e' is more common. [Footnote] *1* To Americans, the form with 'e' is abomination. Wikipedia claims that (1) without 'e' is in legal and (2) with 'e' in other contexts in British (this particular one is a non-legal use), and (3) both are equally acceptable in non-legal contexts in Austraria and Canada.