Posted by Alan Hakim on December 01, 2002 at 19:26:43 from 212.137.166.32 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Semaphore - needs practice posted by Jim McDowell on December 01, 2002 at 14:15:09:
The Oxford Manual of Style, which is the lineal descendant of Fowler, simply says:
- practice (noun, in US also verb)
- practise (verb)
That is what I was taught at school, too.
The second edition of Fowler (ed. Gowers 1965) is a little more verbose:
- practice, -se. Noun -ce, verb -se but in U.S. commonly -ce; see LICENCE.
Which is, of course, exactly the opposite case.