Practices or Practises ???
- Thread starter Glenn Mc
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I am sending out a mail to the County Badminton squad about the county 'Practices'
this weekend and the following weekend...
assume single is Practice ?
damian
Godzilla
Getting conflicting grammer on spell check between Yahoo and Word...
what correct for the plural please ?
One of the online sites say both ??
practice noun
Do not confuse practice with practise. Practice is a noun meaning 'the action of doing something rather than the theories about it' (putting policy into practice), whereas practise is a verb meaning 'do something repeatedly to improve your skill' (they were practising for the Olympics). In American English, both the noun and the verb are spelled practice.
damian
Godzilla
well which one of you two are right then....as you are conflicting here ???? :wall
Bloody American English
I'd always go with the OED definition.
top brake
King Kong
Feck, your day is massively taxing on the brain Glenn............
How do you cope with the stress??
It's tough mate, but i take it day by day
damian
Godzilla
It's tough mate, but i take it day by day
Practice makes perfect. You really should start a practise to instruct us all in the skills needed to do this
Practice makes perfect. You really should start a practise to instruct us all in the skills needed to do this
That conflicts with what you posted earlier then
DanH
Armageddon
That conflicts with what you posted earlier then
He was right the first time...
Its the other way round Damian old chap - the septics dont have the noun, only the verb - as in driving license, they use this verb for the actual piece of plastic in their wallets - thickos. Not surprising their banking system is falling apart, eh Stuart!
Mind you the case of the Lawyers or Doctor's 'practise' has always bothered me as it is a verb but being used as a noun... I guess its a case of looking up 'recursive' in the MIT dictionary and finding the entry says: 'see recursive' -...
