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Martin Lewis - failed me!

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  • uncreative
    uncreative Posts: 384 Forumite
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    Sorry,

    A person either advises (verb), or gives advice (noun).

    As in "yesterday, I advised Joe Bloggs not to give advice"


    Glad that's cleared up.
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  • pollypenny
    pollypenny Posts: 29,439 Forumite
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    KooKai wrote: »
    Oxford English Dictionary

    ADVISE

    Definition of advise in English:
    verb


    1. Offer suggestions about the best course of action to someone:



    You said 'Martins advise'.

    It should be 'Martin's advice'

    Verb has 's'. Advise, practise, prophesy

    Noun has 'c'. Advice, practice, prophecy

    HTH. :)
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    Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.

    (Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)
  • Kernel_Sanders
    Kernel_Sanders Posts: 3,617 Forumite
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    edited 14 September 2015 at 7:35PM
    pollypenny wrote: »
    Verb has 's'. Advise, practise, prophesy
    Noun has 'c'. Advice, practice, prophecy
    It's not a hard and fast rule, however. From https://www.edplace.com/worksheet_preview.php?eId=2970&type=topic we see that some words are spelt -ice whether they are nouns or verbs. These include:
    sacrifice

    slice

    suffice

    invoice.

    There are also a number of words that are spelt -ise whether they are nouns or verbs. These include:
    exercise

    promise

    surprise

    disguise

    although I really don't know what a suffice is!
  • csgohan4
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    Don't feed the troll
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  • david29dpo
    david29dpo Posts: 3,975 Forumite
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    Does your IQ reach double figures?
  • pinkdalek
    pinkdalek Posts: 1,355 Forumite
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    Martin has not failed you, you are not eligible, get over it.

    The only person who can get out of their overdraft is you, if a bank offered you a free overdraft then from your credit history you are hardly likely to be ever out of it.
  • Bay
    Bay Posts: 229 Forumite
    “
    Martin Lewis did not give you advise.
    Originally posted by foxtrotoscar
    Kernel_Sanders wrote: »
    No, your use is wrong

    I thought foxtrotoscar was pointing out a mistake not actually making one themselves.
  • Bay
    Bay Posts: 229 Forumite
    Kernel_Sanders wrote: »
    It's not a hard and fast rule, however. From ,,,,edplace,,,,/worksheet_preview.php?eId=2970&type=topic we see that some words are spelt -ice whether they are nouns or verbs. These include:
    sacrifice

    slice

    suffice

    invoice.

    There are also a number of words that are spelt -ise whether they are nouns or verbs. These include:
    exercise

    promise

    surprise

    disguise

    although I really don't know what a suffice is!

    Is it actually a noun? I'm not convinced.
  • Running_Horse
    Running_Horse Posts: 11,809 Forumite
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    Martin Lewis failed me too.

    All I wanted from him was the winning lottery numbers in advance.
    Been away for a while.
  • GaleSF63
    GaleSF63 Posts: 1,542 Forumite
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    Kernel_Sanders wrote: »
    It's not a hard and fast rule, however. From https://www.edplace.com/worksheet_preview.php?eId=2970&type=topic we see that some words are spelt -ice whether they are nouns or verbs. These include:
    sacrifice

    slice

    suffice

    invoice.

    There are also a number of words that are spelt -ise whether they are nouns or verbs. These include:
    exercise

    promise

    surprise

    disguise

    although I really don't know what a suffice is!

    I don't think any of those have alternative spellings though. So if there is a choice of spelling the rule is (always?) c for nouns and s for verbs.

    Advice/advise should be the easiest to get right as they are pronounced differently, and can be used as a guide to get the others right (eg practice/se and phrophesy/cy.

    Interesting language, English. Probably because it comes from so many different languages.
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