Offense is spelled differently based on where you, or your audience, are.
I like to look at life as a game. I have a passion for writing as well. It randomly does it at odd intervals when you’re typing things too, rather than actually listening to user’s request to have it set to English (Canadian) or English (UK) or English (Australia) … or any other country than English (US). If only the British (those who comment on this site, anyway) were so politely open-minded. Defensive behavior and mechanisms often vary from person to person.Offensive behavior is often active, like a predator attacking or pursuing a prey, Love it, yet I ALWAYS thought defensive behavior was wrong. This is the reason for most of the weird spelling. Defence vs. defense Defence and defense are different spellings of the same word. Offense vs. Defense. And not to say that tragedies don’t happen on a daily basis. Those darn Americans are even trying to take over our language. !I am an American with some English ancestors. Speaking as a Brit and a New Zealander, on the whole I find American spelling more logical than British (e.g., defense / defensive), but it also preserves some archaic 18th century forms.Although I think American pronunciation is more logical (“secretary” is pronounced “sec-ree-terry” in the U.S. as opposed to the British “sec-ruh-tree”), I still think the British sounds more correct (that’s because the first half of my life was in British South Africa, while the second was/is in the U.S.)I’ve never heard an American pronounced the word “secREEterry” and I’ve lived all over the US thanks to being a military brat. In one sense, offense means an attack. This is part of a series of posts examining whether offense or defense has more control of various aspects of a typical college basketball game. The answer is not a … On the other hand, other “***ce” words might get cranky about it :)Well, “defense” seems to make sense, since its opposite is “offense”.
You guys have messed up teeth too! People display offensive and defensive behavior in many situations, particularly during times of conflict. It is worth noting, however, that the American spelling If you graph defense vs. defense across American book publications, you can see that for the last 100 years, For example, the American-British spelling distinction doesn’t carry over to all derivatives of As a result of sports commentators, however, it is now common to hear If you talking about a military or legal strategy, you should use the first pronunciation. Words are derived from foreign words with foreign spelling. (Or Firefox, or other computer settings – you usually have to change your spell checker manually to reflect a non-American English dialect in applications like MS Word and Firefox).“Today, to the chagrin of those who dislike American English, the spelling is gaining ground throughout the English-speaking world.”Why is American English gaining ground throughout the English-speaking world?
In American football, the defense is tasked with stopping the opposing offense from scoring points. All are English and all will continue to evolve. Even it was not standardized until relatively modern history. Go. PowerPoint will change it to English (US) automatically, even when you’ve set the MS Office language default to UK English.I changed mine to Canadian English, and then set it as the default (very important), and I’ve never had it switch back!i say just spell things how you want. Offense Vs Defense In The Game Of Life.
The “funny” is because I always get away with both spellings. Way to exaggerate and ruin your point.‘Mexican’ is a nationality, not language.It’s like saying someone speaks Indian. Computers in 1910, 20, 40?????
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Are they just variants of the same word? This overlapping is also present in both states. It’s defense against defence, and if you think it’s one of the British English vs. American English things—you might be onto something.. Defence and defense are both correct ways to spell the same word. [It would be interesting to see research into why these trends regarding the Ngrams use in each context.
And what are your chances of winning BIG if you played on defense all the time? If you find yourself writing to a primarily British audience or for a British publication, this is the correct spelling for you.In fact, if you graph out defence vs. defense in British English book publications, you can see that it is used much more frequently. At least, we don’t view them as threats to English. Successful defensive players must not only rely on brute power and speed but also have the intelligence to understand what the offense is trying to do to them. This is just language evolving over different geographical areas over time as it always has.
hehe ’40’s?You are just tooo funny!!!