To be enraged that people don't know the difference btw 'lose' and 'loose'

[derxa]

This makes me grind my teeth every time I see it.

I'm with you! I can't read it the wrong way, then the sentence just doesn't make any sense to me!

I have 2 friends who use suite instead of suit! "That doesn't suite me, let's try Saturday instead" drives me nuts!

You Are Been Unreasonable.

Saucy, who are you to say whose being rude.

This doesn't particularly 'enrage' me but I do notice it and it pees me off... But worse are the number of spelling and grammatical errors in Kindle books!!! Whole words missed out or used in the wrong place.

I always wanted to be a proof-reader and clearly they need some new ones because the mistakes are REALLY obvious!!

It's one that I have to think about the spelling of - lost so lose not loose.

idon't really understand why it is such a common misspelling, given that the pronunciation of "loose" and "lose" is significantly different.

I think it is because the pronunciation doesnt match the length. loose is short and sharp, lose drawls out a bit.

Possibly relvant: more than one loo is loos, which looks like loose.

Yes, I know it doesn't make sense if you read the letters and understand phonics. But the people who make such errors evidently do not.

Maybe I'm the acception.

Why does is enrage me so much? I blame my mother, she was a spelling perfectionist!

See now I have lost the ability to type it not is

Hi there derxa - take a look at Pedant's Corner here.

Please do let us know if you'd like us to move your thread there.

BeccaMumsnet... Could we have a show of hands maybe?

Although OP does seem a bit of a poppet compared to the harridans who normal post their 'pithy' pedantry tosh...

*year? - AIR!

Fail.

I wonder if accents come into it sometimes. To me, loose and lose are so different that I'd never mix them up, but maybe in some areas they have similar pronunciations?

I'm being bundled off. Mumsnet HQ, I do not want to be moved. Just let my thread die gracefully...

Accents can contribute to misspellings, Gatorade...
Was surprised when teaching primary in England that some children, even older ones would confuse 'are' and 'our' : "Are dog is called spot".

They are so different to we Scots that we couldn't confuse them. I think!

Not sure who'd pronounce 'lose' and 'loose' similarly, though.

It's not pedantry.

a) they sound different
b) they mean completely different things
e.g. if I can't pay the livery bill, I'm going to loose my horses

What am I going to do?

You should of put this in the write section.

Actually, BeccaMumsnet, please have a look at Pedants' Corner yourself before you suggest that threads like this be moved there.

PC is generally used to talk about language in general, and people who start threads over there just to take the piss out of other people's errors are given short shrift.

We'll leave this one here if you don't mind.

Don't mind me, I'm just parsing buy.

Can May I join in and have a teeny giant rage about people who stand in whats ques. I always read it in Manuel-from-Fawlty-Towers' voice.

I was a Secretarial Supervisor in a law firm for a while and was told that I wasn't allowed to correct the spelling or grammar of the secretaries in my team. HR thought it was "unreasonable" of me to want the correct version of sight/site/cite used, which was a major error. I did ask what they would do about the sentence (which I typed relatively frequently) "The Surveyor cited that they had had sight of the site report". I involved one of the partners (who kept coming to me because he was sick of having to check letters he'd dictated that closely) and we sorted it together (ie I won).

One of the other supervisors (each department had one) took the piss out of me for having a dictionary, a thesaurus and a copy of Fowlers on my desk. When I moved out of the Property department into Insurance law, I re-added my medical dictionary. I didn't know how they could do their job without those things!

**I know I can, I have the ability and the inclination to do it...

I genuinely want people to change their knowledge of these spellings.

I wander weather I might go for a wonder about in this whether.

Two of my personal pedantic bugbears!

Your being unreasonable.

sheitgeist
I am Scottish and teach in England. Pairs of words like are/our and poor/paw are homophones in some accents of English but almost never in Scottish accents (unless you come from Morningside of course)

Draws instead of drawers. Argghhh!