On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 11:04 -0500, Derek J. Balling wrote: > On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:01 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Actually convincing the man with the detector van of that fact, and > > getting them to stop hassling you, is of course another matter :) > > Ha. Like there's any chance of a detector van actually accomplishing > something these days. From what I've been reading it sounds like > there's a sum-total of six vans for the entire country, and they don't > even actually work all that well. :-P
Yeah, the technology has moved on somewhat. I really meant the bully-boys they send round to 'inspect' your property when they think you're lying about not using a TV. > > (And that 'licence' is spelled with a 'c' when it's a noun, and 's' when > > it's a verb. Like device/devise, advice/advise, practice/practise etc.) > > It's so much easier to just be my American self and always use the "s" :-) Looks like your first paragraph was British, and your second was American :) I'm not really sure the US way is better though — you have the *same* rule for devi[cs]e and advi[cs]e, use 's' for both forms of licen[cs]e and as far as I can tell nobody actually *knows* what the correct US spelling is for 'practi[cs]e' :) -- dwmw2
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