to post this spelling correction? LOSE to mean the loss of something

These really irritate me! Aswell grates.

No, no, no! How can you even think such a thing! 😱

It is absolutely forbidden even to gently point out mistakes because everyone has to be their authentic selves and live their own truth these days, and that includes SPAG.

There are far too many common spelling mistakes/typos to let it consume my energy. Plus I’m a bad speller. Always have been. I’m so dyslexic my partner has to remind me several times a week on words I use over and over again. My brain loves to confuse lose and loose, so does my phone. Genuine question- do you really think your rant will change anything? Is your perception of other people that they are just ignorant and/or lazy? If it is, then that’s an incredibly over simplified and honestly, not particularly bright. You understand neither the nuances of language or the pace of of language on the internet. Plus you enjoy looking down on people. I suspect you find it very very tasty indeed. Why don’t you pour your energy into developing your own skills and empathy? You might not change the world but you definitely be a better person.

@bumblingbovine49 yes. Bare v bear is so commonly used now I’ve nearly stopped noticing.
your v you’re is my biggest bug bear. A frienf asked me to proof read an email of complaint to a business and I didn’t know whether to point it out.

Maybe just different pronunciations in different areas?

I pronounce lose and loose differently (lose like looze, and loose like luce, if that makes sense in your accent). I did wonder if some people pronounced them the same so thank you!

I always spell them correctly but I pronounce them exactly the same. Is there a difference in pronunciation? E.g. in 'don't lose your loose rings' i would pronounce both lose and loose the same. Is that wrong? 😮

Very few people are actually specific and atomic with language.

It's less easy than one would imagine.

Another one I see a lot on Mumsnet is people thinking "abit" "alot" and "incase" are words. It's basic literacy and v depressing.

I agree i hate the misuse of lose/loose.
I also hate 'two times more' instead of twice, or 'one more time' instead of once. Hear this on adverts all the time and it drives me mental.

The instructors at the gym also say 'two more times' instead of 'twice more'.

Think its an Americanism.

I think @Abhannmor was joking, which is also why it says "reign" (instead of "rein").

Sorry @Abhannmor . It's a moot point and not mute 🤦‍♀️

Advice and advise is the one I see the most.

See also:

abit, alot, incase, infact, infront, atleast, ofcourse

I move to the next post as soon as I see one of those, my brain can't cope.

I think pointing these mistakes out in a general way is a really good thing to do in case people don't know and are unwittingly making a mistake when they would rather not. No one is getting at people with dyslexia. Does that mean we can never talk about spelling (or punctuation, or grammar) in case someone gets offended or feels inferior? Utter madness.

They may well be referring to Peter Noone, the lead singer in Herman's Hermits!!

But loose surely looks like it rhymes with moose and noose, which it does, so I’m not sure why that spelling seems a better choice 🤔

Where is the popcorn emoji.

I'd just like to write a post to correct every dyslexic person out there because I've just seemingly discovered the Internet.

Guys. I've got news for you.

All along you've been spelling this word wrong! I know I know. It's just a simple misspelling, I can't understand how you could get it wrong, so I've come along here to help you!

Op, I don't doubt you have good intention.

But honestly you misunderstand dyslexia.

I can tell you what helps people look better in writing.

Software. Software that you dictate into that types what you want for you so you don't have to worry about a dumb letter.

Or no one into one word.

It’s not noone it’s no one.

Two words.

It’s all very well adding something along the lines ‘of course my rant doesn’t apply to those who are dyslexic’ but you don’t know who is dyslexic or not.

so you are still be rude to them

you are also being rude to those whose first language is not English, did not get a good education, have communication challenges, or who aren’t very good at typing.

it’s not a good look.

no one deserves to be sneered at for a spelling error

This is a mute point nowadays but I agree that people must not have free reign to spell ' lose' so loosely.

I think it's rude to go around correcting people's spelling on Facebook post and similar. You don't know their story, people are just typing quick and so I don't think it's comparable to a job application or something like that. My daughter is severely dyslexic and had spent much more time than other people learning to spell to a basic standard and she still really struggles and has 1:1 help with spelling at university.
Her come back is someone corrects her spelling is
Thank you, I'm severely dyslexic and I'm glad I could spell the word well enough for you to understand what I mean.
I'm not sure why you would need to use loose or lose in a job application, but anything important she will spell and grammar check, then get her computer to read it to her to see if anything sounds wrong and then get someone else to read it for her which picks up even more issues - there is no way she had time for that to just post something online or in a text message.

I used to work for a watch company and the amount of watches sent in by both jewellers and the public, because they were ‘loosing’ time, was ridiculous!

I’m completely with you on this one!
How can people think it’s ‘of’ instead of ‘have’ they are totally different meanings.
I understand the contracted sound of the words but it doesn’t make any sense when it’s written down!
Would of - Would have
Could of - Could have
Should of - Should have
You don’t say ‘Can I of one of those sweets please?’
or ‘Can I have one have those sweets please?’

I think it's a specific education from a specific time. I was at primary school in the 90s. I'm bright (objectively - top gcses and A levels and a Russel group uni). I reached university and realised I knew zero, absolutely zero, grammar. I think this error is more spelling, and I've never mixed up lose/loose personally, but I regularly mixed up less/fewer and never had a particular lesson on things like present/past tense. I'm hopeless at punctuation too, no clue when to use what. My education was all about creativity I think (although not sure I'm that creative, i do remember doing lots of poetry though). I remember my university sending an email to all first year English students (yep, an English degree) inviting us to a suddenly created and new SPAG workshop, because they'd picked up how totally hopeless we were. I never had a spelling test and I bet lots of people my age never got picked up on this error at school. My children now are drilled on verbs/adjectives/adverbs/conjunctions/contractions etc. I've no clue. It's embarrassing because they're only in KS2. I think there's a bit of a "lost generation" for spelling and grammar. I've taught myself the minimum now but reading my old school work back, in year 10, I was barely using full stops and still getting great marks - madness! The national curriculum just didn't seem to value it for my generation at all.

The pp is not being a pedantic arse.

A word is either right or wrong. If it is wrong, then people need to learn the right way, and how can they do that unless someone tells them?

Do English teachers correct spelling mistakes? Yes they do, and for good reason. Do people remember? Not always, so finding out the right spelling from a thread such as this one can only be a good thing.