Re: Vandals

At 6:00:25 AM on Thursday, September 11, 2008, tgpedersen
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 2:28:44 PM on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, tgpedersen
>> wrote:

[...]

>>> Nonsense. Of course I can ask the members of cybalist a
>>> question about the etymologies of sets of of words in
>>> which I have no special expertise. Everybody on the list
>>> does it all the time.

>> First, this is obviously not true. Some people
>> occasionally ask about the etymology of the odd word or
>> two.

> OK, so it *is* true.

No. Occasionally is not all the time, and the odd word or
two is not a long list.

[...]

> Please share your results with us.

Do your own legwork if you're really interested.

[...]

> And yes, it's spelled 'judgment', not 'judgement'.

Check your facts: it's both. 'Judgment' has been preferred
in the U.S. since Noah Webster, but 'judgement' is also
quite common here and has been the more common of the two in
England. I prefer to follow the pattern of <arrangement>,
<acknowledgement>, etc.

Brian