"WAV, how many times do you need to be told that practice and practise are BOTH correct in the UK? One is a noun, the other is a verb. Do you not actually possess a dictionary?" (Ruth)...my Collins says "Practise, US practice..." and my (American) Websters gives no mention of "practiSe" - only "practiCe"...

Poem 149 of 230: FOR BETTER OR WORSE

Largely due to America,
    English - to use Italian -
Is now the world's lingua franca,
    Where, it seems, it once was Latin;
But, while brogues are a good thing,
    I doubt American spelling.

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

And if English folk-degree students have begun to lean more toward their own culture - good.

Further on concertinas, without any hot-air - I've heard Keith Kendrick play both Anglo and English at the same gig; and I've read from both Alistair Anderson on the English, plus Mick Bramich on the Anglo; and, as I say, happen to prefer the former.

Eliza - when some older English people say present social problems are partly due to greatly reduced church attendence, do you believe them?

Don - AGAIN, I hate imperialism: be it Nazi, Victorian, or any other; and, unlike you, I would never refer to a recorder made in Japan as an "Engrish frute."