Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt – Practice/Practise

~ John W. Howell

 

It is Stream of Consciousness Saturday time again, and here is Linda Hill with this week’s prompt. “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “practice/practise.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!”

If you would like to have fun as well go to Linda’s blog and read how. Here is the link. https://lindaghill.com/2020/04/17/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-april-18-2020/

Practice/Practise by John W. Howell © 2020

“Do you have a dictionary?”

“Uh, I don’t go walking around with a dictionary. Why?”

“I need to look up a word.”

“What’s the word?”

“Practise.”

“Perform an activity or exercise a skill repeatedly or regularly to improve or maintain one’s proficiency.”

“Yeah, I know that definition. Also means the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.”

“So, what’s the problem.”

“It is practise.”

“Yeah, I get that.”

“With an s.”

“Huh?”

“Yeah. P-r-a-c-t-i-s-e.”

“Never heard of it.”

“That’s why I need a dictionary.”

“Look it up on your phone. Hold it…Is this a Linda Hill thing?”

“What else. Here it is. OMG.”

“OMG, what?”

“International English calls practise with an s a verb. Like, practise the piano.”

“Anything else?”

“The word practice with a c is a noun. Like the law practice.”

“So we American’s avoid all that by using  practice with a c.”

“It looks that way.”

“So how you going to use both?”

“I think we already did.”

“Good. Now time to go practise our drinking form.”

“We could open a drinking form practice.”

“Sounds like too much work.”

“I agree. We’ll keep the practice to ourselves but go forward with the practise.”

“I’m confused. Let’s just go.”

“First one on me.”

“Not your normal practice.”

“Stop.”

“Agreed.”

 

 

72 thoughts on “Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Prompt – Practice/Practise”

  2. I wonder how many knew the difference until.they read this here today? And does Grammarly even pick this one up? Going to have to put it to the rest when I get on m’y computer! What the hell, John! School on a Saturday? 😉

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        2. I already have it set to Canuck English but it gives me the finger. I thought I was already on premium but apparently, not. It must have come to the end and I didn’t keep it up. I’ll consider it.

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        4. LOL! I know. It would cost almost $12 US (big diff for me) per month so $140/US year – which I just checked and is just shy of $200. Not much in the grand scheme of things but yanno… some here, some there…

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    1. Nice thing about phones these days is we all have one at our fingertips. (Fully washed and sanitised figertips that is) Happy Saturday to you, Jill * sung to the tune of Blackbird by Sarah McLachlan.

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      1. I’m wondering if all of our phones have contributed to the spread. At my day job, people used to constantly pass their phone to me to look at photos or whatever. Of course, I would always immediately break out my Wet Ones after handing the phone back to them. They always laughed at me. 🙂

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    1. I wrote to one blogger in the UK who suggested that my word “plow” was better spelled “plough,” that this is the reason we colonists left the empire. We hate to waste letters.

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  7. Your Saturday post is always an education. Practice/practise who knew?! Another fun one, John. Have a fantastic day. Stay warm, stay safe. 🙂

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  13. Sigh. My head is exploding … not a good look. I’ve often wondered why Doctors insist on calling their business a practice! I’d much prefer they perfected their skills before I place myself in their hands. Groan. Great post as always, my friend. 😁

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  17. Lemme get this straight. . . .

    It’s practile? I mean practike? Err practire? Wait . . no . . . never mind. I’m sticking with practice, because . . . wait for it, I ain’t perfect.

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