Practice Day or Practise Day?

[PavlovtheCat]

as in, a formal day arranged to practise a skill.

thanks!

Practice.

It's a noun. So 'Practice'. Unless you're North American, in which case it would still be Practice.

thank you!

and is it 'practise a skill'? did I get that right?

Definitely practise as one will be doing something that day ie it is a verb.

If it was say a GP surgery running some kind of surgery or whatever, it would be practice day, as this time practice is a noun.

No you "practise " a skill. A GP runs a practice.

practICE (ICE is a noun). That's how I always remember it.

ok then, seeing as I now have your attention.

a pair of xxx was
or

a pair of xxx were

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was

A pair is a singular noun. Therefore 'was'.

'Practise' is a British verb and a N American non-entity: they use 'ice' for both, which can cause confusion.

Or is that ?

Was

Despite there being two things to make up a pair, you create one pair therefore 'was'

A pair of birds was sitting in my garden

Two birds were sitting in my garden

Does sound a but ugly and I suspect I get it wrong sometimes in everyday conversations.

But Maya - going back to practise/practice. In the OP's example, the noun is 'day' - practising is what they are doing on the day, so (in England) 'practise' would be correct I think.

poppadom I was thinking that, as it is a day to practise, but, I am happy to be corrected hence my post!

I got the 'was' right then

But you have football practice, or piano practice...practice is what is being done. I think either would be acceptable but my preference would be for the noun.

I think you practise something on the Practice Day

Doesn't work that way, Poppadom. 'Practice Day' is a day of practice. Otherwise you'd call it Practising Day, if you wanted to emphasise the doing, the verb.

poppadom - you're incorrect.

The best way I found to deal with this was to change the verb to "advise" because it sounds different.

So it would be "Advice Day", not "Advise Day" and therefore Practice Day.

Same works for licence/license.

that's a great way to remember thumbwitch, thank you! I always have to look those ones up.