i practise the piano. practice? how do i use these words? help me lovely pedantic people....

[mamalovesmojitos]

please.

You practise the piano. You go to the doctors practice where doctors practise medicine

Practise is a verb and practice is a noun.

Think of advice and advise. You would not advice someone to do xyz. Practice and practise are just the same.

that is exactly what i thought! i have been blatantly challenged on this by two people recently.

i explained the noun/verb system to one but thought i had better check for sure before i see them again.

why are people so confidently wrong sometimes? they had me doubting myself...

thanks guys!!!

Were they American? They do things differently there. I know they use "license" for a noun as well as a verb - most likely they do the same with practise.

no. just pigheaded.

Weirdly, US English uses practice for both verb and noun, not practise, as you'd expect from license, defense etc.

I think I got this wrong in a post the other day (the shame )