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#61959 03/28/02 10:53 AM
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mg,

I for one love pedantic correctors! (I live with one... hehehe) So, thanks for the corrections on the first three words (what is your definitive source?).

However: ...practise is the verb and practice is the noun

You're joking in the spirit of the board, right?


#61960 03/28/02 06:26 PM
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Anna my Strophe -

My source is the poem as it is published in The Nation's Favourite Poems (published by the BBC and with a fwd by Griff Rhys Jones) - and that, of course, uses "practise" - because the speaker in the poem is suggesting the verb, not the noun.

No, I ain't jokin'. See the thread in info about 100 most-often misspelled ww....!


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No, I ain't jokin'. See the thread ...

As my sainted mother used to say: If everyone else jumped off
a cliff, would you do it too?


#61962 03/29/02 02:05 AM
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Faldage, it looks to me like a simple case of one lady asking for a source, and the other providing it.


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And what's source for the goose is source for the gander.



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TEd, you hitten the source again?


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