Package: scowl
Version: 6-2
Severity: normal
wbritish-* is wrong about "practice"
american-words.10: practice, practice's
american-words.20: practiced, practices, practicing
british-words.10: practise, practise's
british-words.20: practised, practises, practising
The British entry is wrong. I'm not familiar with how scowl generates the
lists, but surely final/british-words.10 needs to include "practice",
"practice's" (noun) and "practise" (verb).
It must be wrong to include "practise's", certainly at level 10, probably
at any level. Is it possible except in highly artificial sentences?
"It is practise's misfortune to be a verb spelt differently from the
related noun."
[I suspect Canadian follows British English here, but I'm not sure.]
>From scowl-6/README:
"Great care has been taken so that that only one spelling for any
particular word is included in the main list."
Fine, but the principle needs to be applied correctly, a bit like:
american-words.10 : check, checks
british-words.10: check, checks, cheque, cheques
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