That awkward moment when you try to show how much smarter you are… but end up looking stupid.
Hey The Hill: that’s spelled s-t-u-p-i-d.
You’re welcome 🙂
Via Twitchy.
Yes, Donald Trump makes spelling errors in his tweets from time to time (as do we all), but it looks like it’s The Hill that will get mocked this time.
They’re going after him for spelling “judgment” as “judgement”:
Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president because her judgement has been proven to be so bad! Would be four more years of stupidity!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2016
Trump slams Clinton for "stupidity" in misspelled tweet https://t.co/6ARBFj8CKw pic.twitter.com/YJMR1kLhld
— The Hill (@thehill) May 22, 2016
But Twitchy did a search for “judgement” and The Hill, and found 160 hits.
Hoyer reserves judgement on #Scalise: http://t.co/T7c2nicfH0
— The Hill (@thehill) January 6, 2015
Ex-Defense secretary: Clinton showed "major error in judgement" in using private server https://t.co/Bq1SUGCkMq pic.twitter.com/YXfRFqOeL7
— The Hill (@thehill) May 19, 2016
Cruz questions Trump's judgement at closed-door fundraiser: https://t.co/UH4FRlcNDX pic.twitter.com/7YqH0TsqkQ
— The Hill (@thehill) December 10, 2015
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Actually, spelling it with or without the “e” is acceptable. Just saying 😉
Yes. America prefers judgment and UK prefers judgement.
BTW, thee is a third major English written language. International English. Used by international orgs. (UN). I once commented to a British colleague that it was difficult to stop my coworkers from editing international org. text that I said was the Queen’s English. I was promptly corrected. Don’t blame us for that abominable writing, that’s international English.
Going to go to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 14 for help here. Known by its first line which includes the word, judgment/judgement. The version published in 1609 in a Quarto had the spelling, judgement. First 3 and last lines:
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
…
Thy end is truth’s and beauty’s doom and date.
Yeah the spelling/punctuation times are a-changing. The infamous “e” of judgment/judgement is one of those. As is the whole shift in the usage of the comma. And, of course, double spaces are no longer expected (or even accepted as correct in some circles) between sentences or after semi-colons. The double space is my unshakable hangover from the past.