Acknowledgment vs. Acknowledgement

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Montag, dem 30.01.2023 um 12:42 -0500 schrieb 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.

So good to go for a change? (Myself I care not much, as I do not use
these kinds of acknowledg[e]ments).

-- 
Jürgen