the old chestnut - practice, practise

[CarrieMumsnet]

Dad runs a choir and can never remember whether it's a choir practice or practise.

Instinct tells me practice, but I said I knew someone who would know and would be back very soon.

Can you help?

Definately PRACTICE
Practise not a word in Chambers Concise.

It's one of those words that looks weirder and weirder the more you look at it.

OOh we always had this one when we were writing school reports. Will probably get trounced now but IIRC practice is the verb and practise is the noun as in Doctor's practise

Hassled! Definitely practice!

'to practise' is the verb form. I think ...

Other way round MegaLegs

Remember it like advice and advise - the noun has a C, the verb has an S.

Practice is the noun.

Practise is the verb.

The way I remember it is to think of advice and advise.

In this case it is a choir practice .

Bum - you are right it is the other way around .

Thats interesting - I'd always assumed that practice was the UK and practise was an americanism. But no, in Websters (standard US dic) its practice for both verb and noun, with practise listed only as a chiefly British spelling for the verb only.

two ways to remember this:

advice and advise - becuase we pronounce them slightly differently we don;t muddle them up - they're the same way round as practice and practise.

practising - you'd never dream of spelling this with a c

beaten to it

Useless fact for the day: in America, they have 'practice' for the verb and the noun. No 's'.

Bit late joining this but I always remember it as you are going to "c" the doctor at his practice (noun)! Bit texty and nasty I know!!!

"S"illy verb......that's how I remember it.

See, I've read the thread, gone back to Active Convos, forgotten the answer already.

'I intend to attend Band Practice tomorrow'

Marks out of ten, please

i would spell practicing with a c
it's wot i learnt when i was growing up
but not now as everybody corrects you