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Quite. This kind of attachment to the peculiarities of Standard English rarely matters outside highly formal settings - it is as much an enemy of effective communication as its servant.

Example of advise used as a noun, a snowclone most of us have probably encountered: An X's advise to his/her Y (based on the eponymously authored 1811 "Lord Chesterfield's Advise to His Son"), which loses its impact in print if you don't use the not-very-archaic spelling.



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