One of those age old questions on what is difference between:
Program and Programme
Practise and Practice
Licence and License
Get all three correct to get the 10 points. Well, convince me you have all three correct, as I wouldn't ask if I knew!
Tiebreaker: if you can come up with similar words/examples you might get the 10 points.
2006-08-29 09:11:14 · 19 answers · asked by Steve-Bob 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
PC Program
TV Programme
Practise - verb
Practice - noun
Licence - noun ( eg driver's licence)
License - verb (to license someone to sell alcohol)
Another example could be -
professer - one who professes
professor - a qualified teacher, scientist.
2006-08-29 09:52:41 · answer #1 · answered by Shona L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Howdy
A programme is the kind of thing you get at a theatre etc
A program is the sort of thing you'd feed a computer
Practice and practise are both generally acceptable to mean a repetition of an action to improve a skill, but only the former (practice) can be used to denote the place doctors work
Licence tends to be a document ie drivers'
License is when you allow or permit something
Hope this clears things up a little for you!
Take care...
K :o)
2006-08-29 09:21:43 · answer #2 · answered by simplymajik 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Program / programme - is US / English. The former has become the standard for a computer program thanks to IBM.
Practice is a customary habit, e.g. it was his practice to drink tea at 12 noon. Practise is to do something repeatedly in order to improve, such as piano practise.
Licence is a certificate or document authorising someone to do something, like licence to kill (lol)
License is a verb which is the giving or granting of a licence.
2006-08-29 09:22:57 · answer #3 · answered by Ravaug 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Program- computer program
Programme is one on television
Practise is to rehearse something
Practice is improving performance such as carrying out jobs
Licence and License are the same things just two ways of spelling it
2006-08-29 09:17:40 · answer #4 · answered by Honey!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are homophones- sound the same mean something different.
The words you have are verbs vs. nouns I think (?)
Can't think of an example like that but I've got loose/loose (verb vs. adjective)
2006-08-29 09:21:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
computer program television programme
To practise and a dental practice
A British driving licence and an American Driving license.
What about to advise and some advice.
How about mete out justice.
to meet outside the pub
a meat and potato pie.
Then there's one of my favourite ryhmes:
Whether the weather be hot,
or whether the weather be not,
whatever the weather,
we'll weather ther weather,
whether ther weather be hot or not.
Ta -da.
2006-08-29 11:38:09 · answer #6 · answered by markspanishfly 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One is the British spelling of the word and the other is American for practice and licence. Just check the dictionary.
2006-08-29 09:29:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 1992
They are both correct.
2006-08-29 09:19:00 · answer #8 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
are you 16
2006-08-29 09:15:02 · answer #9 · answered by pat e 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Diva Honey is right, but I thought Licence and License - one a verb, the other a noun.
2006-08-29 09:23:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋