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[Asset]

Look I'm sorry to be a pedant but I'm getting annoyed by the frequency of this. The last straw was when Mockney did it.

It's Hear Hear.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

And I thought Mockney was the fount of all knowledge. I'm devastated.

[Asset]

Exactly!

[Brendan]

I'm sure they will all get thier just desserts.

[Brendan]

Perhaps after a meal of egg and corn.

[mockney piers]

Oops. Yeah I hesitate every time I write it, I think I even asked once on hear [boom boom], and will normally go off and google.

Muchoth apologies, I was lazy yesterday.

No idea why the answer never sticks in my head, but it will do after a public castigation, especially when I was being such a pedantic sh!t yesterday!!

[fish]

Guilty, as charged.(td)

[fish]

fish Wrote:

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> Guilty, as charged.(td)

Me, myself and I - on another thread.

[Ant]

I'm always getting bear/bare wrong.

Not that that's got anything to do with it, but there you go.

edit: in the verb/adjective form that is. I'm OK on the Yogi type noun.

[Brendan]

I can?t spell for toffee. Now stop distracting me I have some web copy to sub-edit.

[citizenED]

Where did mockney do it? was it hear or was it their?

Stocks or tarring and feathering?

[mockney piers]

Reminds me of a private eye cartoon where Ang Lee is accepting his oscar for Broke Back Mountain and says

'It's about this broke..'

Yeah, I usually paws over the bear/bare thing too.

[char1ie]

A also have a problem with bear/bare as in "bare it in mind". Never can get my head round this one.

Also pinciples, fewer, eldest, forehead, licorice, abseiling, Soave are all bothering me at the moment.

Thanks for sharing.

Charlie

[mockney piers]

have no problem with principal/principle

You wouldn't believe how often I see BP or McDonalds in our principle_client column and think 'that can't be right'.

Totally with you on licorice.

Also have a terrible habit of typing genereal when trying to type general.

[Keef]

"Necessary" is an all time bad one for me. And before training for my job, which involves teaching "Independent" living skills, I'd always chuck an A in to independent somewhere.

Bear/Bare is a git, I was writing something the other day, and had to reword it because I couldn't work out which one to go with!

[SeanMacGabhann]

"Tariff" is proving a real bugger for me at work at the moment

(and you just know that any job that involves needing to use the word tarrif is one that makes me feel I'm living the dream!)

[citizenED]

does anyone know of any classes that can teach me how to unravel the practise/practice conundrum?

[Brendan]

Oh come on don't make this into a class issue.

[mockney piers]

LOL brendan!

Classes in Cleveland perhaps? I've a feeling they don't differentiate between the two over the pond, it's just 'practice'.

[Ant]

Practice is a noun and practise is a verb. In the US they use -ice for both.

[Keef]

So, a doctor talking about his patients in the pub is bad practice, but I practise my guitar? :-S

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

advise/advice

[Annasfield]

licence/license (?) (as in pub)

[Brendan]

Doesn?t it worry you that doctors call what they do practice?

[Asset]

to help with the bear/bare in 'bear it in mind', think of carry eg. 'carry it in your mind' not 'get naked in your mind'. (well, only sometimes).