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Too loose to lose

Boonie

Boonie

Ramon Vega
Why, why, why do youngsters spell lose as loose? Two words with different meanings, do they not teach spelling at school enymore?
 
Boonie said:
Why, why, why do youngsters spell lose as loose? Two words with different meanings, do they not teach spelling at school enymore?
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enymore?

Some words are easy to misspell even when you know better. I often find myself using one for won and other similar errors. I think what people don't do is reread what they right ... that's another one and I make it in this of all posts ... what they write.
 
enymore was intentional, sometimes I wonder weather I should bother... And one and won have the same sound just different spellings and meanings, lose and loose are not the same in any way.
 
because they are either dumb, pretending to be dumb or it is an innocent slip up. Mostly it's the first two.
 
This is one of my greatest pet peeves. I feel like a dingdong correcting people, but I will generally correct my friends because I feel like I'm doing them a favor, not to be patronizing.

I could get confusing there and their (not really), but they're is one letter away from being two words (they are). How do you confuse a contraction?
Same with your and you're of course.

Whatever, it won't get in the way of their bagging of my groceries.
 
Boonie said:
And one and won have the same sound just different spellings and meanings, lose and loose are not the same in any way.
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No, but you could argue that if you were spelling it phonetically, loose (given the sound of "loo", the longer O sound needed for lose I mean) makes more sense. Lose doesn't sound like nose or pose.

Either that or they're a bit fick like.
 
Seedy Ron said:
No, but you could argue that if you were spelling it phonetically, loose (given the sound of "loo", the longer O sound needed for lose I mean) makes more sense. Lose doesn't sound like nose or pose.

Either that or they're a bit fick like.
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loose goose noose
 
maybe they just cant spell it. the ones that are doing it

alot of kids i know know how to spell.....much better than i do actually.
must be a postcode thing
 
too/to, loose/lose, they're/their/there, know/no ... they all get me too. The problem is that context is not picked up on most spell checkers so half the time the writer doesn't even know he/she has got it wrong. At least you can be smug in the knowledge that you know the difference between being a loser and a looser ;)
 
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inkpenspur said:
too/to, loose/lose, they're/their/there, know/no ... they all get me too. The problem is that context is not picked up on most spell checkers so half the time the writer doesn't even know he/she has got it wrong. At least you can be smug in the knowledge that you know the difference between being a loser and a looser ;)
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This is the problem, people expect a spell checker to correct everything. It saddens me..
 
I'm usually very good at looking up correct use/spelling when typing away BUT..............

Please in a nutshell....the easy formula for when to use 'maybe' or 'may be'
 
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