Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly

Re:Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly by 18172828286177 on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:16AM (#44559839)

For what it’s worth, I’m a native British English speaker and don’t instinctively consider “practice” “grammatically incorrect”. Indeed, I would probably write “practice” myself.

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Re:Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly by anonymous_sorry on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:36AM (#44560795)

Pretty sure I had this corrected on more than one occasion when I was at school. Also licence/license. I remember one day figuring out the parallel with advice/advise as a way to remember which was which. So C for the noun and S for the verb.

Weirdly (to my brain), Americans always spell practice with a C, but always spell license with an S.

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Re:Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly by jonathanstrange on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:00AM (#44560372)

That's why you need a good spellchecker.

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