Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Practise or Practice?

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Practise or Practice?Practise: verb - perform or carry out constantly or habitually; act upon insteadof simply professing a belief;exercise or pursue a profession oroccupation, such as law or medicine; observe, actively follow the doctrines of areligion; actually carry out a law or command; do something repeatedly toacquire a skill; train or drill someone; make practical use of, employ; try todo something; Design a means to bring about, plan; plot an evil or unlawful act;try out or use experimentally.
Practice: noun - doing something; the usual or customary action orperformance; a custom; a habit; in Law - established method of legal procedure;exercise of a profession or occupation; the business to which a lawyer or doctorbelongs; repeated performance of an action to gain or keep proficiency in it;activity undertaken to this end; practical application as opposed to the theory;exercise; a practical treatise.
We all know that 'practise' is theverb and 'practice' the noun, but this is not easy to remember for many.However, if you think aboutsimilar words this might help.Advise is similar to 'practise'and has the advantage that you know that 'to advise' is a verb.Similarly, advice is similar to'practice', and we all know that 'advice' is a noun.
'Unless you practise more, Miss Bennett, you'llnever be proficient.'  Pride andPrejudice.
'Kim had been a doctor for severalyears and had her own practice on the high street.'