| 词组 | premises, premisses |
| 释义 | premises, premisses Premises is normally construed as a plural, even when used in the singular sense, "a building or part of a building": • ... a tenant may assign his lease or sublet the premises or any part of them —McKee Fisk & James C. Snapp, Applied Business Law, 8th ed., 1960 Usage commentators warn against treating premises in this sense as a singular, as by preceding it with the indefinite article a: • The 1RS padlocked a premises and was ordered to pay rent as the occupant — Wall Street Jour., 2 June 1971 Such usage has a certain logic to it, but it is too uncommon to be considered standard. A related topic is the correctness of the spelling premisses. Various commentators have described this spelling either as an error or as a variant sometimes used by the British to distinguish the plural of the "presupposition" sense of premise ("one of the premisses of his argument") from the "building" sense of premises ("was asked to leave the premises"). What it is, in fact, is the plural of premiss, a spelling variant of premise that is common in British English: • ... examine the premisses on which his opinions were based —Ian Jack, English Literature 18151832, 1963 • What I object to is his basic premiss —John Higgin-botham, Times Literary Supp., 28 Dec. 1967 • ... was needlessly confused by the premiss that... —B. C. Akehurst, Tobacco, 1968 • ... diameters, planets, terms, premisses —Howard 1977 Premiss is actually the original and etymologically more faithful spelling of this word, but it now survives only in Great Britain, and only in the senses of the word relating to logic and arguments. The spellings premise and premises are used for all senses in American English. |
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