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What's the difference between these two words?

I was wondering if there is a difference between “practice” and “practise”, or do they mean the same thing, but just with different spellings?

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Answer #1

I’m from USA—we use practice for both its verb and noun forms. we do not use “practise”. we recognize that as spelling used by other countries for the same word.

Answer #2

Well it kind of depends on where you are. They are effectively the same thing however: In most parts of the English speaking world (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and South Africa) ‘Practice’ is the noun and ‘Practise’ is the verb. Eg: -Dr Smith has to attend his practice. -John is going to practise his German.

However in America the spelling ‘Practice’ is often used for both the noun and verb. A small minority use the ‘Practise’ spelling for the verb and the other for the noun.

Answer #3

Yup, “practise” is used chiefly in the UK.

Answer #4

go to dictionary.com

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