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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Started conversation Jun 2, 2008
Two more words that can be added to the Homophones - A4875942 Entry
Though, I'm a bit confused about them myself, so could I have some advice please. 
There's loads I've missed out, so any more suggestions for the homophones entry would be appreciated. 
Emmily 
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Cheerful Dragon Posted Jun 2, 2008
Advice is the noun, advise is the verb. We were taught that with advice and practice, the noun has a 'c' and the verb has an 's'.
According to my dictionary, practice/practise is a UK think. In the US they use practice for both the noun and the verb. It's curious that they don't treat advice/advise the same way.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 2, 2008
Practice and practise are both pronounced the same. They are homophones. So it makes sense to use the same spelling for them both.
But advice and advise are not pronounced the same. Advice has an "s" sound while advise has a "z" sound.
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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jun 2, 2008
Does that mean I can't put advice and advise on the homophones page Gnomon?
Unless a person knows which one to use, they wouldn't know how to pronounce it.
Emmily
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 2, 2008
You could make a special section for "almost-homophones".
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 3, 2008
You could also add:
principal
verb: first, leading
noun: person who is leading, in charge
principle
noun: a standard or rule; a fundamental truth
There's a fundamental principle at stake here. The principal problem with that is that it is stupid. I met the principal and he was a nice guy.
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Jun 3, 2008
And the spelling of advice/advise helps you to remember the spelling of practice/practise. /s/ has a range of sounds in English: it can be sharp or more z-like. Soft /c/, though, is always sharp.
TRiG.
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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream Posted Jun 3, 2008
all, great suggestions
Will deal with when I online at a more reasonable hour and more awake. 
Emmily
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jun 4, 2008
Capital/capitol is a mistake that Americans make a lot. We don't have capitols in Europe, in general, so Europeans don't make that particular mistake.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jun 4, 2008
Yes, I know - but I see the mistake often enough from Americans that it's become one of my pet peeves 
There's a church called St-Maria-im-Kapitol in Cologne, but I think that's the only use of the word I know that isn't a translation from something American.
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- 1: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jun 2, 2008)
- 2: Cheerful Dragon (Jun 2, 2008)
- 3: Gnomon - time to move on (Jun 2, 2008)
- 4: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jun 2, 2008)
- 5: Gnomon - time to move on (Jun 2, 2008)
- 6: Mu Beta (Jun 3, 2008)
- 7: Gnomon - time to move on (Jun 3, 2008)
- 8: AlexAshman (Jun 3, 2008)
- 9: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Jun 3, 2008)
- 10: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 3, 2008)
- 11: Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream (Jun 3, 2008)
- 12: Gnomon - time to move on (Jun 4, 2008)
- 13: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jun 4, 2008)
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