• DillyDaily@lemmy.world
      72·
      2 years ago

      Practise is a verb, practice is a noun.

      I like to remember it with the following sentence.

      “The doctor had to practise his surgery skills before he could open his own private practice clinic”

      Verb, S=surgery. Noun, C=clinic

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        2 years ago

        It’s funny that you offer correction. UK English makes this distinction, US English doesn’t and uses practice for both. Internationally where many English speakers mix neither usage can really be said to be incorrect. Pedantry fail.

        • DillyDaily@lemmy.world
          44·
          2 years ago

          Eh, I’m not that invested as to feel I’ve failed. To fail you need to try. I just like fighting fire with fire when I see people correcting other’s spelling online.

          At the end of the day, as long as you’re communicating your message effectively whatever you’ve written has done it’s job. I’m dyslexic, people offering unnecessary spelling advice irks me, so if they make a “mistake” (at least, as far as prescriptive English goes) I’m going to annoy them the same way their comments annoys everyone else. If they’re not annoyed by it, well who cares, nothing gained nothing lost.