Skigeek 2010

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Jun 26 15:11:47 EDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:08 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 10:32 -0500, Becky Bruce wrote:
> >> 'Wild waIving (sic) of hands...." Is that you practicing your  
> >> dancing?  I'm thinking this is the year of www.lambadajes.com.
> > 
> > Since we're being pedantic, ITYM 'practising'.
> > 
> > You spell it with a 'c' for a noun, with an 's' for a verb. Like
> > device/devise, advice/advise, etc.
> 
> We don't (on this side of the pond).  Well, we do for advice/device,
> but we don't follow that practice on all words.

I know you don't on licence/license -- but I've been led to believe that
you do for practice/practise. "Practicing" has never been a word, AFAIK.

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dwmw2




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