Not vice.
A VISE grips a hook;
A vice grips you.
Carry on.
It's VISE
Not vice.
A VISE grips a hook;
A vice grips you.
Carry on.
I have a fly tying vise and a fly tying vice.
I can think of few acts more selfish than refusing a vaccination.
Luckily I have no "vices".....Originally Posted by rainbowchaser
I've got all kinds of vices, only one vise though. Eh, what you gonna do?
Incorrect. Don't believe me? Check Merriam-Webster, OED, or any other decent dictionary. On the other side of the Atlantice "vice" is the more common usage.
My vice is coca cola, I have many vises including 4 of the fly tying type. In history it was only a short time ago that dictionaries were made. Before that time phonics and communication not spelling were the rule. My thought is that communication should still be the rule.
Now lets get back to fishing.
Eric
and before you ask, yes I am suffering from either PMS or the Shack Nasties
Last edited by Eric-WD; 01-14-2010 at 11:45 PM.
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is difficult."
Georgy Shragin
Designer of ppsh41 sub machine gun
Correct... Sort of....
This page describes Vise this way...
A vise or vice (see American and British English spelling differences) is a mechanical screw apparatus used for holding or clamping a work piece to allow work to be performed on it with tools such as saws, planes, drills, mills, screwdrivers, sandpaper, etc. Vises usually have one fixed jaw and another, parallel, jaw which is moved towards or away from the fixed jaw by the screw.
It is necessary to follow the link at (see American and British English spelling differences) to see this.
It does show that vice is the U.K. spelling and vise is the U.S. spelling with this explanation.
"The two-jawed workbench tool. Americans and Canadians retain the very old distinction between vise (the tool) and vice (the sin, and also the Latin prefix meaning a "deputy"), both of which are vice in the U.K. and Australia.[140] Thus, we have Vice-Admiral, Vice-President, and Vice-Principal, but never "Vise-" for any one of these."
So while the Brits may use vice as the spelling for the tool, those of us on the west side of the pond have it right. Vise is the original spelling and should therefore be considered correct.
Kevin
Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some person ever reads.
Me too. I 've been gripped by both of them.
Ed
I''m OK with the Brits spelling vise with a c. What I could never understand was how they get AL-YOU-MINIUM, out of aluminum. Makes me want to bang my head on a rock. Maybe if I bought an alyouminium vice, I'd understand. Or not.
They're just fish, right? Right?
lets all put this in the boot, grab some casts and go angling!!
"Trust, but verify" - Russian Proverb, as used by Ronald Reagan
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