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From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
Date: Friday, December 12, 2003 5:33 am
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] French usage
I can be understanding when I know that the person
making the
correction
doesn't know any better. It's more irritating when somebody
insists
that their own way is the only right way. I tend to go after the
ones
who use "practice" as a verb. When I went to school "practice"
was the
noun, and "practise" was the verb. If I see "gay" in a French
text, it
looks like the writer has used the English word. Letting these
so-called corrections can't be right, because it acquiesces to
something
that not everybody will see as a correction.
I suppose that it would be a lost cause to note that practice as noun AND verb is the
standard US English spelling?
It may be unusual to someone from Canada (going off your domain, here), but I've never
seen it split-hairs style like that even in UK English.
This is sort of pedantic, granted...
But I'm Pedantic-Man.:-)
*whistles 'Triangle Man'*
John