I must apologise to JL and maybe to Grice. I just learned that 'vice' is the (a) British spelling of 'vise.' It would be, I think, odd to say that 'vise' was the American spelling of 'vice.' Ambguity
abounds.
I hope that Grice didn't say this. He surely knew the difference between a vice and a vise (whose etymology is not what is alleged above). Only in spoken English would 'Smith was caught...,'be ambiguous. I think someone is pulling our millipedian appendages.
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