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Affect is a verb, although very rarely it can be used as a noun. Effect can be a verb or a noun.

Effect (noun): a thing that has happened.
"Seeing live worms in his dinner has such an effect on Brian!"
Effect (verb): to bring about change.
"We will effect changes to the school uniform from next term."

Affect (verb): to produce an effect on.
"Rachael shaving her head didn't affect the way Gabriel felt about her."
permalink Racheal is a dyke ?
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permalink todger dodger
that is to say a woman with very comfortable shoes
permalink a woman on a quest to find the furry grail
permalink a clam slammer
permalink Placing the effect pedals in a different order
can affect the effect of the effects
permalink It all becomes clear now.
permalink so rule of thumb
effect is a noun except when you are talking like a twat.

permalink effect is a verb when you are talking like a twat
90% of the time you can use a better verb like "make"

"We will implement changes to the school uniform from next term."
"We will make changes to the school uniform from next term."
"We will change the school uniform from next term."
etc...
permalink yeah that's what i meant
permalink I basically just remember that the only time effect is a verb
is when you effect a change. And the only time I've seen it in use is in tenancy contracts, the first time I saw it I had to ring my dad and check it meant what I thought, and as he's a solicitor he thought I was weird for never having seen it used like that before.

So for me it's easy to remember as my dad thought I was an idiot ;)
permalink I hate the word 'demise'
used in property contracts.

It makes me think I am going to die.
permalink curtelidge is better
but I thin a demise is within a building.
permalink The "landlord's demise" is typically internal common parts, right?
Whereas curtiledge (sp?) is the area of land that can be reasonably said to be occupied by a building (i.e. house, driveway and garden). Curtillage (i think this is the correct spelling) is not necessarily legal ownership, and has a different meaning in planning law than elsewhere I think.
permalink I think your right
I just like curtillage as it sounds like cartilidge