I thought the point was that we are English B@stards!
I also thought that Padgett would pop in with some Euro comment, but alas...
Anyway, I did learn the spelling difference in high school. My teacher told me this and I didn't believe her so I went over and got the dictionary and looked it up; sure enough in that very book it said, "br. sp".
So for the last 10 years I have always spelled it without the middle "e", but since even the dictionary that I have in my home now lists "judgement" as an alternative spelling, I'll use better jugement (middle English sp!) before saying anything in the future!
