On 2012-06-16 3:38 PM Tom Davies wrote:
Hi:)
It's a bit weird because in English (UK) defence is right but defense is not.
Of course nothing can be 100% right all the time.
Regards from
Tom:)
Have a look wikipediea for the differences between UK and US English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
For example:
*-ce, -se*
For advice / advise and device / devise, American English and British
English both keep the
noun/verb distinction (where the pronunciation is -[s] for the noun and -[z]
for the verb).
For licence / license or practice / practise, British English also keeps the
noun/verb
distinction (the two words in each pair are homophones with -[s]
pronunciation, though). On
the other hand, American English uses license and practice for both nouns
and verbs (with
-[s] pronunciation in both cases too).
American English has kept the Anglo-French spelling for defense and offense,
which are
usually defence and offence in British English. Likewise, there are the
American pretense
and British pretence; but derivatives such as defensive, offensive, and
pretension are
always thus spelt in both systems.
Australian[28] and Canadian usage generally follows British.
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