Fun with Grammar.

[MichaelM]

With experience, will a professional develop their practice, or develop their practise?


practice - noun
practise - verb

I'll post my opinion (and reason for posting) a little later so as not to influence you deeply considered opinions!

 

[Mr Phoebus]

He was peddling really fast. (He was doing a roaring trade)

 

[Mr Phoebus]

The bike comes fitted with two breaks. (sounds dangerous to me)

 

[Dayvo]

The farmer was sowing in the fields. His wife was sewing indoors.

 

[TVC]

Wears the soap?

 

[Mr Phoebus]

I'm on a diet, I could loose a pound or two. (well, they do say that weight falls off)

 

[yello]

reckon you'll want the noun

 

[MichaelM]

Go on Mr Phoebus, what do you reckon would be the correct option - noun or verb?

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Go on Mr Phoebus, what do you reckon would be the correct option - noun or verb?

Lose - verb. The amount of people who say loose/loosing.

 

[deanE]

With experience, will a professional develop their practice, or develop their practise?


practice - noun
practise - verb

I'll post my opinion (and reason for posting) a little later so as not to influence you deeply considered opinions!

It could be either, depending on what you mean. A lawyer might develop his skills (his practise) over years and if he was owner of the business, he may also develop the business ( the practice) by taking on another lawyer to work for him.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It could be either, depending on what you mean. A lawyer might develop his skills (his practise) over years and if he was owner of the business, he may also develop the business ( the practice) by taking on another lawyer to work for him.

Doesn't that end up making a noun, ''his practise,'' out of the verb? Which is more or less what practice is already.

 

[MichaelM]

It could be either, depending on what you mean. A lawyer might develop his skills (his practise) over years and if he was owner of the business, he may also develop the business ( the practice) by taking on another lawyer to work for him.

I meant skills - with experience. I went for the noun. Put like that, I can see why I got it wrong (but was convinced I was right !).

thanks

Michael

 

[MichaelM]

It could be either, depending on what you mean. A lawyer might develop his skills (his practise) over years and if he was owner of the business, he may also develop the business ( the practice) by taking on another lawyer to work for him.

I meant skills - with experience. I went for the noun. Put like that, I can see why I got it wrong (but was convinced I was right !).

thanks

Michael

 

[MichaelM]

I'm failing to see where the fun is here.

 

[yello]

For me, grammatically, it has to be the noun because of the possessive 'their'.

I wasn't sure of the context of the spelling... don't they spell differently in the USA?

My usual test of practice/practise, licence/license etc is to use the more obvious advice/advise comparison. Because practice/practise SOUND the same, the spelling isn't obvious. However, substitute the differently sounding advice or advise and the answer leaps out....

'With experience, will a professional develop their advice' (noun)

OR

'With experience, will a professional develop their advise' (verb)