Skigeek 2010

[Randy Dunlap]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

I've never seen or used "practise" in .us.  FWIW.  ;)

-- 
~Randy
LPC 2009, Sept. 23-25, Portland, Oregon
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/