Rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford

SOME WORDS ENDING IN -MENT

Reading edition

In words ending in -ment print the e when it occurs in the preceding syllable, as—abridgement, acknowledgement, judgement, lodgement.[20] But omit the e in development, envelopment, in accordance with the spelling of the verbal forms develop, envelop.

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · ‘I protest against the unscholarly habit of omitting it from “abridgement”, “acknowledgement”, “judgement”, “lodgement”,—which is against al