What cc motorbike can I drive without license

NBLondon

GothicStirling wrote: »

Sorry to derail again, but can't let this one go. Since when was license a 'doing word'?

Since the 15th century

Edit, you're using license as in 'to provide a license.' Not that some who wasn't a part of the DVLA or some other kind of licensing board, would use the word license as a verb.

In British English: License (verb) means to grant a licence (noun) to someone. Every time you upload an image (which you have created) to social media you are licensing them to reproduce it. The T&C may even say so at the point you click upload... even if hardly anyone reads the small print. You may not use it in speech very often but it's fairly normal in contracts.

In US English: Both Verb and Noun forms are spent License. So as pointed out above - this is becoming more common in other English-speaking nations.

Similar for Practise (Verb) and Practice (Noun). The General Medical Council will license Dr Deastons to practise medicine and they may display that licence in their practice. But an American doctor will practise (verb) medicine - possibly doing practise (adjective) procedures in a practise (noun).

{Nothing to add to the topic - I've never felt the need or desire to ride mopeds whatever my 1980s vintage licence says...}

owen_money

Deastons wrote: »

Over forty and can't spell licence.

What's your excuse, MEM62?

Maybe American?

Sorry someone has already said that. Anyway whats the color of your license?

King_Nothing

AdrianC wrote: »

He doesn't need a CBT for a Class P moped.

Yes he does. He passed his driving test after 1st February 2001.

AdrianC

King_Nothing wrote: »

Yes he does. He passed his driving test after 1st February 2001.

You're right. I missed that, and focussed on his age, assuming a normal learning age.

Richard53

Verb/noun

License/licence
Advise/advice
Practise/practice
Prophesy/prophecy

All follow the same rule in UK English. The verb gets the 's' and the noun gets the 'c'.

That is for information only, and not criticism, by the way. I gave up correcting people's spelling and grammar when I gave up teaching English to teenagers. It is easy to look a bit of a d!ck when you attempt to correct adults who may have a learning disability of which you are unaware, or whose first language may not be English.

mark1959

Richard53 wrote: »

Verb/noun

License/licence
Advise/advice
Practise/practice
Prophesy/prophecy

All follow the same rule in UK English. The verb gets the 's' and the noun gets the 'c'.

That is for information only, and not criticism, by the way. I gave up correcting people's spelling and grammar when I gave up teaching English to teenagers. It is easy to look a bit of a d!ck when you attempt to correct adults who may have a learning disability of which you are unaware, or whose first language may not be English.

This does give you license to advise though.

Richard53

mark1959 wrote: »

This does give you license to advise though.

I prophesy that it will not, although in practice it might.

neilmcl

God there's some anally retentive posting going on here. Two pages in and probably only 3 or 4 posts that have had actually bothered to answer the OP's question. It's no wonder that OPs never come back to their threads in this forum sometimes.