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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I use two 'tips' regularly:
    1. Envelope begins with 'e' (to remember the stationery/stationary thing )
    2. 'The cat (noun) sat (verb) on the mat' (for practice vs practise etc.)
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I remember it as - practice/advice contain a 'c' which is an 'n' for noun, turned on its side.  So you can see that practice and advice are both nouns.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    When I can't remember, I cheat and say it in a different way ;) 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Device/devise, prophecy/prophesy - two more for the ‘c for a noun, s for a verb’ group
    Rutland, England
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    And I haven’t got a clue what you’re all talking about. 😱😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    edited August 2018
    My favourite joke:

    What's the difference between a duck?

    One of its legs is both the same
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Now that is a deep joke. So deep, I can't see the bottom of it. Is it a zen poem?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096

    "He advised me to take a cab" (with an 's')   - the action is 'to advise'
    "He gave me good advice" (with a 'c') - the thing he gave is 'advice'
    ..............
    "She practised her French" (with an 's') - the action is 'to practise'
    "Practice makes perfect" (with a 'c') - the thing to do is 'practice'

    Various words have the same

    noun = c
    verb = s 

    pattern to them.

    I hope this helps.



  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited August 2018
    LauraRoslin said:
    My favourite joke:

    What's the difference between a duck?

    One of its legs is both the same
    In similar vein:   

    Why does a mouse when it spins?

    Because the higher it flies, the fewer.

    My favourite joke:

    What's brown and sounds like a bell?

    Dunnnnnngggg!!
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    herbaceous said:
    Dire Straits and Chris Rhea have formed a new band (it would now be as old as the joke!) they were going to call themselves Chris Straits but changed their minds 

    My husband loved that joke, it was one of his repertoire of seven 'good' jokes, now its back in my head
      

    herbaceous said:
    OK, so now I'm stuck with that awful joke about the Dire Straits record featuring Chris Rhea - nooooooo don't want it in my head
    I don't think I have heard that one. 
    Thanks,  I hadn't heard it. 
    West Yorkshire
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