AIBU to wish people knew when to use 'lose' rather than 'loose'?

[hambo]

AAArgh!

You don't want to LOOSE weight - you want to lose it!!

...and so on

Reality- the examiner testing me for my phonetics exam kept saying "pronOUNciation". I couldn't even concentrate on the fecking question as I wanted to take a meat cleaver to her.

twirlymum - not just text speak (unfortunately, even my middle sister, ex-head, sometimes shortens to 'u' on texts - but "Thankyou" written or spoken as one word - gets me.

I could understand it having been printed on some fast food receipt in the USA with a fool programming it, but don't parents these days (or rather 15 to 30 years ago) teach "please" and "thank you" ?

Oh thank the lord it's not just me noticing loose instead of lose appearing more and more. I have to say, it's usually on emails and even my DH did it the other day which, of course, I berated him for.

I groan inwardly at the sign near my house - a childs drawing of a snail with Loose Speed underneath it. I know it was designed by a child, but the council have gone ahead and made it into an actual road sign.

addition/edition is another one

affect/ effect anyone?

i once posted that I had gone downstairs in bear feet.

I had a really shit education and when I was at work ( moons ago) my secretary used to sort my burble out.
I do try but ....

Thank you 70's progressive teachers. Between the strikes and the 'it doesn't matter about spelling and grammar - it is what you want to say that counts' plus the 'if a child is interested they will be drawn to the subject so don't make it an issue if they are pissing about at the back' I was lucky to have a career at all.

I see that tethersend got there first...

Bucharest-

lol at bear feet, grrr

pagewatch yes I was at school during that progressive period.

In a particularly 'progressive' London borough.

Ditto on all of those. One of my pets is women/woman. I see so many people use women for a singular woman! I think it was one of my exes though who set my back up against that!

(Glad I used spell check then!)

What about when people write: "I am loathe to do that..."

It's loath for the love of God!

Or "it doesn't phase me at all..."

aaaaaaargggghhh!

< and breathe > NOT < and breath >

The loath/loathe reminded me of breath/breathe, but see you have already done that

confuddledDOTcom - re woman/women

I have to admit that I regularly question the naming of "Woman's Hour" on R4, because it seems like a lot of effort for just that one single listener!

Great minds think alike duchesse

Has anyone seen the advert for some sort of fiat?

"Less old bangers"

I mean, how may people must have approved that before it went on air?! For the love of God!!!!

I started a thread on pedants' corner as I was close to tears after seeing it. I thought no-one else cared...

I was at a bed store this weekend (exciting, I know!), and the staff were all wearing uniforms with the word 'Bed's' stitched on them.

In the same store I saw a mattress with a printed manufacturer's label claiming that the mattress was 'Breath Easy'

Grrr. I needed a lie down after that.

YABU please find a way to get over yourself! Should dyslexics not be allowed to communicate? And PLEASE don't ask them to use a dictionary - it's like asking a blind person to try wearing glasses.
Climb down off your high horse for a while.

Surely you don't think all people who spell incorrectly are dyslexic?

practice and practise

Borrow & lend. As in 'Can you borrow me that?'-nooooooo. I can lend it and you can borrow. Don't even start me on 'bought' & 'brought'. .

all this pedantry is making me loose my mind. next time i come on a thread like this, someone will have to borrow me some patiants becuz i am fast loosing mine

Think you've covered all points very nicely Custardo .

There are times when people convey completely the wrong meaning with poor spelling/ punctuation. I saw a classic example the other day where I thought: " What the blardy hell are you on about?" I read it through several times, trying to work out how on earth this person could possibly think that way, and then suddenly realised they'd missed out a comma. Simple as that.

Wish I could recall the sentence...you'll just have to take my word for it.