Outburst Of Pedantry

[Superstrath]

My grammar and spelling are far from perfect, and I certainly don't mind forumites being slightly careless when making hurried posts. Nor do I worry or bother about some of the tortured gibberish sometimes posted hereabouts. As long as the message gets across, that's fine with me.
BUT... there is one word which is so frequently misspelled that it is really starting to grate. LOSE. More often than not, spelled LOOSE, even by some of the more erudite contributors.

If you mislay something, you lose it. You do not loose it. Loose can be a verb, though not very often, but it does not mean lose.

I may lose my marbles over this, in which case they will be loose.

This is boaty because there was a note stuck to a filler plug on the boat the other day, which read, "Do not loose this."

Sorry.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"I may lose my marbles over this, in which case they will be loose."

Or lost.

"Do not loose this."

Maybe a shorter way of saying "Do not remove this"?

 

[Aardee]

And SORT instead of SOUGHT, grrrr.

 

[snowleopard]

That's to much but we'll let you of this time. Better not too have started this off course.

(there - that's my 2 other pet hates dealt with).

 

[cameronke]

You may have a screw loose

cameron /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[FullCircle]

I got a mate called Lou Smorrells, and he has a mate called Lou Scannon-Ondeck.

 

[jhr]

Here here! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Superstrath]

[ QUOTE ]
Maybe a shorter way of saying "Do not remove this"?

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No, it was taped to the chart table. Anyway, that would be, "Do not loosen this." Maybe.

 

[Matrosen]

My pet hate is there instead of their. It can lead to real confusion.

 

[Malcb]

Last winter there was an ad in one of the yachting mags "Winter births available" /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[andy_wilson]

Ought to be - correct spellings sort.

nm

 

[Adrian]

Your and you’re does it for me!

 

[tazzle]

Likewise, I don't really give a toss as far as forum postings are concerned.

At work however I find I can't let letters go out without 'red penning' them first - most of them drafted by graduate professionals. They probably think I'm an anally retentive old whatsit, and I get crochety when they make the same basic errors time after time. At times I've considered taking them all off for the day and teaching them the basics of writing a business letter.

 

[reginaldon]

Yes, and apostrophitis - the overcoming urge to put an apostrphe in front of every 's' that denotes a plural.

 

[CraigB]

You should of put this in the Lounge instead
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[Superstrath]

Re: Ought to be - correct spellings sort.

"I should OF thought of that one!"

Living in the West Of Scotland allows me the opportunity to correct the spoken grammar of children and adults on an almost full-time basis, should the mood take me.

"I seen this," and, "I done that."

My personal favourite, "I had went."

Obviously, when taking refreshment in a bar, I refrain from such helpful educational comment, preferring my teeth in their present location. I wouldn't want to lose them over a few loose comments.

 

[bobgosling]

Headline of The Metro today : Wembley not open till 2007.

Shouldn't that be 'til ?

 

[Superstrath]

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Headline of The Metro today : Wembley not open till 2007.

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You must be joking?

 

[snowleopard]

Re: Ought to be - correct spellings sort.

How long before all this grammar business is obsolete? Anyone who has conversed with the under 25s lately will know that "he said...I said" has now transformed into "he goes...I'm like".

 

[tazzle]

That looks like a typical spellcheck error combined with unimaginative sub-editing - but on the subjects of tills, '10 items or less' as used throughout Tesco is a particular howler. But there are few of us that protest (or should that be 'But there are less of us that protest'?).