Clothes are 'loose' and people 'lose' it when they're cross......simple...or not???

[PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt]

I see 'loose' used instead of 'lose' - it's a different word!!!!

Thing is, my dsis bought me a copy of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" because I was so pedantic and arsey about grammar, punctuation and spelling and she lived out her entire childhood being corrected incessantly by me.. I do wonder if fate sent me a dyslexic son to teach me a lesson!

Perhaps we should have a thread called 'ineractive grammar assistance' where you're only allowed to complain about a common mistake if you offer up one of your own confusions and also correct / advise on the posts previously...??

Did that make any sense at all???

That way we get to winge and learn....

How would you pronounce 'The Loose Women's Institute'?!

'luce'

Neither are mine

good one aviatrix! (mine neither BTW)

Pipe - it's actually pronounced 'The Lose (lewz) W I'

but that a local thing.

What about 'Lewes'?

Ah - that's like 'Mousehole'.....!!

my written english is terrible I get incredibly confused with punctuation and spelling, I also have trouble taking numbers down over the phone I dont do it deliberately to wind people up I cant help it, my brother is the same. Neither of us are stupid I have a degree (not in english obviously and my db is a policeman) to have people criticise and make judgement on you is a bit unfair and does knock your confidence

It just tells you something about that person, even just that they cannot be bothered to check things they aren't sure about or think grammar and spelling do not mater. It's not very hard to grammar and spell check. My slightly dyslexic daughter always checks everything.

Woops, Xenia!

'Of' rather than 'have' is the one that gets me - e.g. I couldn't of done it... rather than I couldn't have

My personal bugbear is an apostrophe after the letter 'x' to pluralise or indicate possession. eg one fox, two fox' or "my daughter is in Mrs Wilcox' class" Aaargh!

I check when it matters on forums like this it is just not that important to me

Shouldn't that be "whoops" haggis?

Is it not fora rather than forums?

I personally don't mind mis-spellings, as we all do it at times and it isn't really that important on a chat site, not everyonehas time to sit and check before they post. What really grates me is wrong grammer....my particular hate one is 'brought' instead of 'bought' i.e "I brought a new pram today"...arhhhhhh where did you bring it from?? So just to re-iterate if you buy something you've 'bought' it, if you bring something you've 'brought' it. So many people write brought instaed of bought it really does my head in!!

Ex
Bring=Brought
Buy=Bought