Is it "Acknowledgments" or "Acknowledgements"? Hello there, hope you have a nice day! I've had "Acknowledgements" marked incorrect in my essay by the auto-correct function. But I found it is written

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Is it "Acknowledgments" or "Acknowledgements"? Hello there, hope you have a nice day! I've had "Acknowledgements" marked incorrect in my essay by the auto-correct function. But I found it is written in that way in a book I was reading earlier (The Language of Evaluation by J. R. Martin and P. R. R. White) and I tried to search some other English references... some of them are written as "Acknowledgements", while some are "Acknowledgments". Are both correct? Thanks in advance for any help.

Jul 27, 2020 7:56 AM

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It's the difference between American and British English. Acknowledgements = British Acknowledgments = American You'll often find that spell checkers don't like you writing in British English (although they're getting better). I don't know how many times I've had a report returned to me because it has automatically changed "colour" to "color" and I didn't notice.

July 27, 2020

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