Note: The analogy of the English language requires that the noun and verb which are pronounced alike should agree in spelling. Thus we have notice (n. & v.), noticed, noticing, noticer; poultice (n. & v.); apprentice (n. & v.); office (n. & v.), officer (n.); lattice (n.), latticed (a.); benefice (n.), beneficed (a.), etc. Cf. sacrifice (?; n. & v.), surmise (?; n. & v.), promise (?; n. & v.); compromise (?; n. & v.), etc. Contrast advice (?; n.), and advise (?); device (?), and devise (?), etc.
The other question is whether they practise.
'A lot of people who buy these shoes may never practise the sport,' says White.
A team at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital in the UK uses personal computers to help patients supplement therapy. They allow patients to practise repeatedly routines that will help them find words they have in their heads but cannot express or write.
He cannot be seen to be encouraging his supporters to practise such cynical tactical voting.
Lovell White Durrant, the City firm of lawyers, is the latest to apply for a licence to practise in Ho Chi Minh City.
A useful drill to practise at the airport, on planes or in traffic jams is to bring your mind to focus on a single object in front of you (such as a pencil) and concentrate on it for one minute.
Fitch is putting its own experience with new technology into practise by diversifying into new multi-media fields such as home shopping systems. 'Technology will play a central role in the future of the design industry,' says Martin Beck.
'So many of them practise beautifully but they have no idea how to win their matches' he told me between matches in Hong Kong. Sweeping generalisations are dangerous, but Stefan has a point.
With the lack of market incentives, widespread industrial shortages and severed trading links, GDP is falling at about 20 per cent annually. Nor has Ukraine begun to practise budgetary or fiscal discipline.
Yet architects are not like doctors, who need medical qualifications in order to practise.
Both put forward cases for change on a serious scale. Conventional political wisdom is that politicians rarely practise in office what they preach in campaigns.