>>>Don't pretend to defend the offence of using offense or defense in pretence of your defence.
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>>I suppose, as a Canadian (a bastard nation between the 2 empires of UK and US, the worst word for me is LICENCE/LICENSE. For some reason, I get tripped up depending on whether it is used as a noun or verb.
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>I thought you guys just used "Purrrrmit" instead. :-)
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>Just reminded me - Naomi - there's a whole load that are similarly a noun or a verb, depending on the stress on the word, e.g.
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>PER-mit (a licence), per-MIT (to allow)
>PRO-ject (what geeks work on), pro-JECT (cast, throw, as project a picture on a wall)
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And is it PROW JECT or PRAH JECT?

Is it Eye talian or It alian? The country is not called Eye taly.