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To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Apr 18 2021 09:16 am

Hello Michiel!

** On Sunday 18.04.21 - 11:25, you wrote to Rob Swindell:

 RS>> Alternate spelling of "practice" there.

 MV> According to "The Shorter Oxford", "practise" with an
 MV> 's' is the preferred spelling in the Queen's English.

 practise is a verb and practice is a noun.


 MV> English spelling is a nightmare for non native speakers..
 MV> The written and the spoken English almost seem two
 MV> different languages. "Case" rhymes to "space". But why is
 MV> the one spelled with an 's' and the other with a 'c'?

Or.. even face, not fase.  :(   And there's vase, sometimes  
pronounced VAAZ.


 MV> And why does "ginger" not rhyme to "singer". And if "rhyme"
 MV> rhymes to "slime", why is it not spelled "rime"? It is
 MV> torture. ;-)

You CAN pronounce ginger as in singer.  You'd be the life of the  
party!  I know people who play around with words like that all  
the time. It's unexpected and hilarious. You can even embellish  
it by changing the emPHAsis on a differnet sylLABle.

I get a kick out of how frech-canadians pronounce develop: de- 
ve-LUP.  Where as the englaise prounce it: de-VEL-up.

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  ../|ug

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