Merriam-Webster give an example using premises: <the basic premises of the argument>.
I do not think there is anything wrong with this use of premises. I don’t find homophony or having multiple meanings to be valid reasons to criticize use of a word.
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Merriam-Webster give an example using premises: <the basic premises of the argument>.
I do not think there is anything wrong with this use of premises. I don’t find homophony or having multiple meanings to be valid reasons to criticize use of a word.
Premisses is sometimes used to distinguish the logical term, but premises is more common. There was allegedly a professor who continued to lecture during an air-raid even though plaster was falling from the walls, till the chairman said "I'm afraid I must stop you there, our premises will not sustain your conclusion."
I was watching a British youtuber a while ago, though I don't remember what channel, and I heard them pronounce word Premise as "pre-MAIZ" instead of "pre-MISS" is that common in british english or just a weird peach quirk they have?
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They say things like "premise number" referring to a phone number you can call for that address or a person being "on the premise." "We made contact at the premise and they were not able to provide the proper passcode."
From what I can find there is no definition for the word "premise" that matches the definition of the word "premises". Any idea why this is happening?