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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (516)	1/4/1998 6:41:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

My torts teacher dinged me on this in law school. I had learned to spell judgment with an e, judgement. When I got my paper back there were all my judgements circled, 20 or so of them, and my grade was knocked down.

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (516)	1/4/1998 6:57:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

I protest the judgment/judgement entry, though. "Judgement" is the British English spelling, and to judge from your own frequent use of the word "whilst" (not common among American English mother tongue types), I'd guess one of your parents is Brit or Canadian, or that you spent some of your childhood years in England or Canada...

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (516)	1/4/1998 8:05:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Hey, Bill, if you're gonna quibble with "judgment/judgement" then I have a beef with "all right/alright" because both are in my American Heritage dictionary, albeit the latter version is labeled as "informal". In the case of "Alright, who's the wise guy?", "all right" just doesn't look all right to me. - Jeff (Come to think of it, no one has mentioned "who's/whose" up until now.)