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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