Acknowledgment vs. Acknowledgement

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 1/30/23 01:26, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Montag, dem 30.01.2023 um 08:28 +1300 schrieb Andrew Parsloe:
>> Just to confuse matters, my "New Oxford English Dictionary" (in fact
>> from the 1990s) has "acknowledgement (also acknowledgment)" whereas
>> with words like "colour" and "tyre" it has "colour (US color)", "tyre
>> (US tire)". In other words, it doesn't see the
>> "acknowledgement/acknowledgment" distinction as a UK/US one.
> Thanks. According to my (rather superficial) research, both variants
> seem to be used in both regions to _some_ degree, though the "e"
> variant seems to be significantly more frequent outside US than within
> US and Canada, where the other variant seems more common.

Yes, I think that's generally true. E.g. "judgement" vs "judgment". My 
sense is that, nowadays, the distinction matters less than it once 
did---the internet and all that---and that both spellings are regarded 
as correct. What I would expect from my students is consistency.

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