Defence or defense? Hmmm.... I am not sure. Usually if it has red lines under it I will change it to what it says is right regardless. In Old English prior the way English is today things were spelled how they sound. There wasn't really any silent letters LOL.

But on most days I spell it as Defense simply because I am forced to. That is how our country has told us to spell it. Being one of my vocabulary words in grade school I had to write it 100 times and then write the definition. I was a great speller in grade school. Computers have pretty much taken away our need to spell correctly. I noticed that when YouTube comments started getting the red spell check lines. But they needed to do that because you cannot understand what some people say. "mayn tht vido is wck i thohgt it was horibel nobdy shood pst tht crap" (I only got red lines for horrible and thought LOL). I read that all of the time. Luckily I have friends that type and write letters like that so I have learned to decypher them.