> Once a doctor used to practice medicine in his medical practise, > no more I see. Either will do. What HAVE you done?? :) > > >
Actually it's the other way round here. Doctors practise (verb), but have a practice (noun). Confusing for many (particularly if notions of parts of speech are not understood) and disappearing in many quarters, probably because of the US English spelling checking in word processors. (It was once possible to get an Australian English dictionary for the one's word processor, but I haven't seen or heard of one for years.)
Helen Duggan qed@n...
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