Defense or Defence?

I've always written it as defense. But I just looked it up in my Oxford English dictionary and they use "defence" and "defensive." So I dunno. Either way, I guess.

Defence. However, the adjective is "defensive"; thus the adverb is "defensively".

Isn't it something like the noun is defence and the verb is...no but defend is the verb. Hmm. I don't know...

I said defense. My freakish Mac computer thinks "defence" isn't a word. YWS says it's a word. I looked at all the choices so long, the only one that looks right now is "Bob".
Long live Bob!!! The chicken catching, head bonking, hand clapping, music listening smiley!!!

Sports fan says: D-fence...

Isn't it a Yank/Brit thing?

Ugh... I've been staring at the words for so long they both look wrong to me. I'm going to try to stay away from the word so I won't have to think about it. Maybe we need to make up a word to fit both choices!

Therefore, the new word is... dum dum duuumm.... Bob! :p

-kittykat

depends what part of the world you come from mainly

i spell it defence (usually)
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bob...
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of course!...
how could i be so dumb?...

BOB!!!
woop...

Defence.

Furr.. me too :}

now see i spell it defense because defence makes me think of taking a fence off a yard and i have always spelled it defense because i remember my brother saying

"Defence is dething that surrounds deyard"

stupidiot92 wrote:now see i spell it defense because defence makes me think of taking a fence off a yard

My thoughts exactly! However, then I got to staring at both of the spellings and it made my brain hurt...therefore, I have decided that the correct answer is...

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BOB!!!!!!!!

Hooray for Bob!!

Um..... I can't spell, so, Bob it is!
If I close my eyes andtype it, it comes out like,
this degenves!
I can't type either!

I've always said defence, though strangely it's not something I've thought about before - how odd!

That's not one of the ones I usually notice; I think I've spelled it both ways in the past. I voted for "defense."

Think of it this way:
Which one's cooler, s or c? Of course it's C, cos S is like, at the bottom of the alphabet