Acknowledgment vs. Acknowledgement

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 1/30/23 12:45, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> 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).

Yes, it's fine with me.

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