A friend of mine said that in everyday speech advise can be used as a noun to replace advice, like can you give me an advise?
I think that it should be either can you give me an advice or can you advise me.
Who's right?
Answer
In standard English, only advice can be used as a noun. When someone spells the noun as advise, I rather think it is a mere typing mistake, and that he would really pronounce it like advice, not like advise. (The c sounds like /s/, the s sounds like /z/.) The typing mistake is fairly common, but still widely considered incorrect.
Note also that advice is normally uncountable, so you cannot say or write an advice; you need to remove the indefinite article an.
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