Skigeek 2010

[Randy Dunlap]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I have no idea.  I didn't do those things personally.
Happened before I had a chance to change them.

But it's probably easier just to have one spelling for any of them...
not that we can be consistent.

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