Questions of style and usage in last week’s Independent
Theory and practice: when the latter becomes a verb, an arbitrary convention of British English requires a different spellingJanet Street-Porter in her column last week wrote about how she was, as a result of the coronavirus, “being forced to experience PR”. This was her abbreviation for “practice retirement”, that is, a rehearsal for pensioner status.
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