Is there any reason, historical or grammatical etc? Why isn't this tolerated like "judgement" or "blueish"?
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Is there any reason, historical or grammatical etc? Why isn't this tolerated like "judgement" or "blueish"?
I couldn't find related posts around here or EL&U forum as far as I searched. I'd truely appreciate your answers…
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I think you mean you truly appreciate our answers, because--like it or not--that is the modern spelling. You are free to differ from the norm.
I don't know the why (other than an arbitrary rule or practice, such as the one below from the OED), but the how is almost certainly due to dictionary standardization, or standardisation if you prefer the BrE spelling.
EDIT:
from the OED (which gives observations, not rules):
Note the "rule" and then the exceptions, duly and truly--so there is no real reason other than this arbitrary practice, and these spellings became enshrined in a dictionary.
The influential 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson spells the word as truly. Here is the entry snipped from the online version:
Corresponding to publiction in dictionary, there is no spelling of the word in the entry for truly in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) that deviates from the spelling truly after about 1700. Truly existed before, along with variant spellings. (Truely exists in other entries after 1700.)
Another word, blue, whose modern adverbial form bluely exists from the late 16th century, was also spelled blewly and bluly before about 1750.
And although we retain the e in nicely and bluely, we do not in wholly and duly--which are also how the 1755 dictionary spells the words. Frankly, these rules are arbitrary, and wholely and duely look about as good as truely.