Sence and sense???

[taliesin238]

What is the difference between sence and sense???

[factor-fiction]

Can you give an example of use of the word "sence" as I've never seen it used

[Buenchico]

According to three different dictionaries I've just consulted, there's no such word as 'sence'!

(Unless, that is, you count the River Sence in Leicestershire or the Slovenian word for the the temple on the side of your head!).

Chris

[taliesin238]

Maybe sence isnt a word?? maybe its just my aweful spelling??

How do you say 'does it make sence'??

Is there a difference in spelling between sence as in you sence something and sence as in when something makes sence????

[Buenchico]

Simple answer: NO!
:-)

Chris

[Stephen_G]

Just looked through two big dictionaries and the word sence doesn't appear in either. Where did you hear or see it?

[taliesin238]

I think it is a figment of my imagination...along with my atrocious spelling!! Sorry guys i guess there is no such word as sence and sense is the correct spelling!!!

[factor-fiction]

The word is sense in both cases. And your spelling is not aweful- I think the word you were looking for is awful. Aweful is something else.
"Sence" does appear at the end of some words- e.g. "presence" and "essence" but it's not a word in its own right.

[factor-fiction]

Don't worry. Your spelling of ATROCIOUS was okay. Most people use the odd word incorrectly or use a non-existent word. Lots of people say "pacific" instead of "specific" . And many people are bad spellers- most people can't spell accommodate or put loose for lose

[Quizmonster]

In past times, 'sence' was a variant of 'cense', 'sense' and 'since', so perhaps you were just born into the wrong century!

[stefos]

Ha ha, I've solved the problem of atrocious spelling by using speech recognition software!

' Anti-disestablishmentarianism' - see!
Or how about.... ' Gewurztraminer'. Easy-peasy.

er..Sorry to go off topic.

[New Judge]

Beware of getting confused with such words as �advise� and �advice�, �license� and �licence�. These are genuine alternative spellings and are there to provide different grammatical interpretations.

You advise (a verb) somebody by giving them advice (a noun). Similarly you license somebody by providing them with a licence.

No such alternatives are available for �sense�.

[mumsaren]

wow really?
It's sense and it is a word.
like in "It doesn't even make sense". It's used online and movies quite often

[Blahness]

The difference is that Sense is a word to describe methods for a living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
The word "Sence" is a common misspelling of the word Sense. unless you mean sencē which is a word from sencis Meaning “ancestor” +‎ -e “fem.”

[Terence12]

I am 63 with a Ph.D in neuroscience and had laboured under the misapprehension that the were two versions—sence and sense, until very recently. The physiological meaning sense of course I always got right, as befits my profession. When I wrote something like “common sence” and someone corrected me, I just just assumed that that must be a grammatical exception, but could never figure out why or when to use the other presumed version. Once I learnt that (apart from a river and a couple of minor instances) there is only one way to spell sense, life was so much simpler. One wonders why myself and the originator of this thread made the same error, which must have occurred early in our educational histories.