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Drifting Through Words

Here are a few more shots from a recent morning in Yialos. Boys fishing, fishing boats moored up after being washed down and having had their nets mended; those two things remind me of the age-old question, ‘What do you do in the winter?’ Although I don’t go fishing, it continues through the winter months, with professional fishermen on their boats, and amateurs with their rods. As long as you have a licence, I guess you’re good to go.

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Random thought: Licence. Another of those English words that’s easy to confuse, as in ‘license or licence’? To put you out of my mystery, Licence is the noun, as in fishing licence, while License is the verb, as in to license someone to fish.

Of course, being an ‘English’ word, Licence is not English at all, but has arrived in our language from Latin, via Old French, to Middle English. License, however, derives from Licence, so that can be counted as being English, based on a word derived from Latin and Old French.

I think that’s right.

Meanwhile, Practice and practise work in the same in in that the noun has the C in it, Practice, while Practise, with an S is the verb. In this case, the verb came first, from Latin and Old French, and the noun, Practice, came from it.

I have no idea how or why I drifted into that, so here’s a fishing boat, and I’m drifting off to work.

Ps. A collective noun for a group of fishing boats? A drift.

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