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I can never remember sentence vs sentance, and also practise vs practice.
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But a hack to help me remember the second, where both are right but have different meanings would be nice.
I like Timba's idea. I remember it differently (in my head, the 'c' is the regular form and it changes to an 's' if you're using it as a verb), but this is probably better:
(I remember these and similar spellings by applying "advice" and "advise" to the same sentence)
are we obsessed with being correct vs accepting evolution?
Yes, damn it! (-:
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The soft 'c' as in advice does make things confusing, we've two letters 'c' & 's' that can sound the same but one of those letters (c) can also sound like 'k' or 's.
Evolving that further though - we don't actually need the letter C - anywhere it's used we could replace by a K or an S depending on its pronunciation.
And while I also know there are similar words, with similar meanings, but with different spellings to differentiate them from each other, the context of a sentence clarifies that.
eg: You advise someone (verb) or give someone advise (noun)
Careful, we're heading towards newspeak!
I think there's a speeling mistake in your advise/advice example 🙄 😉
(not sure if whitestone has missed the point or I am)
It'll all be irrelevant anyway, we'll evolve 2 txtspk b4 long.
My mistake if I missed the subtlety of your example 😳
txtspk: definitive proof that if you give an infinite number of monkeys and infinite number of keyboards you'll get gibberish!