Python licence again
has
has.temp2 at virgin.net
Fri Apr 22 19:12:04 EDT 2005
John J. Lee wrote:
> Yes. ISTR that licence is a British English spelling, though my
> British brain has been thoroughly contaminated by US spellings and
> usage by now.
Oh, it only gets worse: a couple years on the illiterate intarweb and
even basics like "its" and "it's" become a major struggle. ;p
> (Or are they like practice and practise, which (can)
> mean subtly different things in British English
Yep, we aim to confuse:
licence, practice = noun
license, practise = verb
/grammar geek
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