Planning to write an article about Martin Scorsese's new film The Departed that isn't chock-full of gangster clichés? Fuggedaboudit. Or fuhgetaboutit. Or fuggetaboutit. Lots of writers want to use the famous New York-ism, but few agree on its spelling. Here are some of Gelf's favorites:

CNN
There have been riffs on his breakthrough movie Mean Streets from China, South America, France, Taiwan and the UK. GoodFellas? Fuggetaboutit. Urban crime hasn't been the same since.
At least CNN doesn't fugget about its prior usages. It offers the same spelling in an Associated Press article about the Gotti trial.

Fugeddaboutit

Augusta Free Press
In a year when there has only been a handful of memorable films, it's a great luxury to just sit back and watch two masters like Scorsese and Nicholson weave their disparate magic. But needless to say, if you're a smidge squeamish when it comes to the blood-and-guts department, or kinda namby-pamby when Naughty Words pop up, fugeddaboutit. The Departed ain't for you.

Fuggedaboutit

Orlando Sentinel
But The Departed is Scorsese's most entertaining picture in years, dense, violent (more of his screen sadism played for laughs), and satisfying. It's as funny as an oddball ring tone (Irish mobsters, "Scotland the Brave"?), as abrupt as a lost call. And it's a statement. As in Sopranos? Fuggedaboutit. Let the master show you how it's done.

Fuhgetaboutit

Boston Globe
And actress Peg Saurman Holzemer, who plays the mother of a mobster who's unceremoniously snuffed, called Damon's character one scary dude. "I wouldn't want to have anything to do with him," said Peg. But in real life? "Oh, fuhgetaboutit," she said with a smile.

Sadly, Gelf wasn't able to find any writers who used LL Cool J's preferred spelling, "Fuhgidabowdit".