Skigeek 2010

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:12 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 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.  ;)

Interesting.

Er, so did you "simplify" licence/license to the verb form,
practice/practise to the noun form, and leave the others as they were?

Is that really easier? Or am I misunderstanding the motivation for the
changes?

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dwmw2