You know I've never known this I've always spelt it "practice"believing any other way of spelling it to be Merkinization. I shall endeavour to better practise my grammatical practice. ;)
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Mon 18 Jul 2011, 8:32,
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The verb is from Old French "practiser",and the noun is from Old French "pratiser". Practise with an s was originally (1400s) the noun, not the verb. None of this makes any sense. It all comes from Greek "praktikos" anyway. Until a couple of hundred years ago it was also OK to say "practik" for the noun form, but that became unfashionable, presumably as some kind of employment scheme to create jobs for grammarians.
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Mon 18 Jul 2011, 10:10,
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It's like the word Disc (UK) Disk (US) the word emanates from the Greek word Discus
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Mon 18 Jul 2011, 10:19,
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diskos ashally.discus is Latin. Probably I should drop the etymological arguments before I start campaigning for a revival of Proto-Indo-European. Still, the practice/practise split is just annoying and has no reason to exist. I don't understand how it happened.
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Mon 18 Jul 2011, 10:30,
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