practice v practise

[roisin]

OK, I get that practice is the noun and practise is the verb, like advice/advise.

But in the phrase "the students were doing a practice/practise Duke of Edinburgh expedition" the word is functioning as an adjective.

So is it practice or practise?

I think practise, but I'm not sure.

Darn it, if that's the case I would get that wrong. I would have treated all of the phrase as the noun and used 'practice'.

No it would be "practice expedition". But it is confusing especially as US spelling seems to be the other way round.

You just call it 'pre-expedition training' . On the DofE website they use 'practice' as in 'practice expeditions'.

Nope, it's practice, because it's part of the noun.

OK. Thank you all.