Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks dotnet.html

2004-02-03 Thread Matt Benson
--- Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, the change I made to become "an ugly practise" > appears incorrect to me but > is correct to someone from the US. > I hate to revive this subject, but actually US English is worse than all that. "Correct" (you'll use them if you don't want your

Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks dotnet.html

2004-02-03 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:36 pm, Steve Loughran wrote: > > well, the only dictionary I had handy was the BBC spanish learner's > dictionary, and it listed both, so who knows... > In English, practice is the noun and practise is the verb. It's the same with licence (noun) and license (verb). In Americ

RE: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks dotnet.html

2004-02-03 Thread Jan . Materne
But I don´t want to write something like "practi[sc]e" :-) Jan > -Original Message- > From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:39 AM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks dot

Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks dotnet.html

2004-02-03 Thread Peter Reilly
It looks like this is a US/ROW thing: SYLLABICATION: prac·tise PRONUNCIATION : prkts VERB & NOUN: /Chiefly British/ Variant of *practice* . OTHER FORMS: *practi

Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks dotnet.html

2004-02-03 Thread Steve Loughran
Conor MacNeill wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:55 am, Steve Loughran wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -documented as we do not want to encourage such an ugly practice. It, +documented as we do not want to encourage such an ugly practise. It, Practice is legit in my (UK) dictionary Mine too, of cours

Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks dotnet.html

2004-02-02 Thread Conor MacNeill
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:55 am, Steve Loughran wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -documented as we do not want to encourage such an ugly practice. It, > > +documented as we do not want to encourage such an ugly practise. It, > > Practice is legit in my (UK) dictionary > Mine too, of course an

Re: cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks dotnet.html

2004-02-02 Thread Steve Loughran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: conor 2004/02/02 07:08:32 Modified:docs/manual/OptionalTasks dotnet.html Log: Keep those grade school teachers happy Revision ChangesPath 1.17 +1 -1 ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/dotnet.html -documented as we do not want to encourage