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I think it is basically just an inability within the english-speaking community to pronounce the -ce at the end of this word with clarity. Every community has difficulty with some sounds that are easy for speakers of other communities to say. The word was originally liquorice, coming in from the French, where is would have been pronounced something like "lick-o-reess". (In fact, in old French, it was even spelt "licoresse".) But English has a little problem pronouncing the "ice", with it becoming "ish".
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