On 22/04/2008, Mark Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I'm not sure this is the right place to direct this, but I'm hoping it > will be forwarded if it isn't. > > Who is the spelling be failure who put "judgment" at the only spelling for > that word in the US English dictionary? WordPerfect (which I have learned to > trust far more on spelling issues than OOo) spells the word the word either > "judgement" or "judgment." Wiktionary lists "judgment" as an ALTERNATIVE > spelling. > > How did this get through? This isn't the first time I've notice problems > with the spell check function. I thought this was supposed to be a > collaborative, peer review process. Obviously, someone has a fetish for > alternative spellings. > > How do I delete the wrong spelling and replace it with the primary > accepted spelling of a word? > > > Mark Weber
Webster expresses no opinion; it just defines both versions. See, for example, http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/judgment Merriam-Webster gives the "non-e" version as standard and the "e" version as the alternative. See http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/judgement The OED gives the opposite - judgement as standard and judgment as alternative. Seems WordPerfect and whoever wrote the Wiktionary entry were brought up using Merriam-Webster ;-) As a Brit I'd have spelt it with the "e". You could always add an auto-correct entry to your OpenOffice configuration. Interestingly (?) there's already one converting "jugment" to "judgment"; you may decide to change that one too. Not sure how to delete words from the spell checker but you can add them when they are picked up as errors. I think you'd need to add the e-version so that the auto-correction doesn't get picked up as an error. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
