To want to punch ALL the people...

[fillimum]

... who talk about wanting to 'loose weight'? On any weight loss topic on this site and on others I would say that about 75% of people write loose when they clearly mean lose. ARGH!!! I am not overly pedantic about grammar and spelling etc (well I am a little) but the amount of times I see this drives me to distraction!

Tis a curse, my dh wrote walldrobe instead of wardrobe, I had never realised that was what he's been saying all these years (his accent you see). Still I didn't punch him, but it is an affliction...

chop them up into little pieces and feed them to the pedants.

Maybe our enormously fat fingers get jammed a bit between the I and the P and so do two instead of one?

Because it is boring me GibbonInARibbon. I don't really have a huge amount of interest in defending my experience, qualifications or job ability based on a lack of tolerance for grown adults misusing words on forums. [yawn].

Happy New Year, y'all!

But lose and loose sound different - so why do people confuse them in writing? They don't muddle them up when talking.

Littlered, would be fascinated to find out more about your research...

Instead of getting a sore hand perhaps you should embrace the concept of "I'm going to loose weight" in the sense of "I'm going to let this weight loose, I'm going to set it free"

[hippy and floaty]

Slightly different I know but back in the day when I used to watch Big Brother - it used to set my tetth on edge that they all used to whine 'i'm up for nomination' No you are not, you have been NOMINATED and you are now up for EVICTION. Hmmm but maybe that's just me! Mis-use of To and Too also annoys me!

I've just realised that I'm guilty of the lose/loose thing. My defence is that it was very late, and I was typing too quickly.

I'm very, very sorry if I offended you. Come over here an punch me, if you dare - there's a lot to hit! It will be lovely to met someone without any faults.

Can't stand the word 'loose', my Mum uses it to describe diarrheoa...YANBU!

Fillimum, only one person has asked about what kind of job you do, and I think they were being curious, not asking you to 'defend' anything!

Edam - thanks for the interest. Atm I'm doing lots of work on fonts vs. handwritten script, but the more work I do, the more I notice that there's something very complex going on between visual memory, phonetic understanding, short-term processing in the mind and muscle memory, all of which contribute to what eventually goes down on the page.

Btw, in my accent 'lose' and 'loose' are homophones. But I know some people say 'lose' with more of a zzz in it.

Quote from OP, "I am not overly pedantic about grammar and spelling etc (well I am a little) but the amount of times I see this drives me to distraction!"

Think you'll find it's number of times...

Littlered, tell me even more!

ds is now six but he's still using 'incorrect' past tenses for some words because I can't bear to correct him - it's just so impressive when small children do this because even though they've never heard anyone say 'goed' instead of 'went' they've worked out that's what it should be. They have worked out their own mental model of English grammar which is fairly amazing.

Not that ds says 'goed' any more but there are still some words where he's using his own version of the past tense.

Punch is a little strong.... having said that, I dislike the use of weary instead of wary!

Yes... go on, punch all the people then

Shockers I was about to add that one, it makes me pull my hair out and want to punch!

yabRidiculous

I hate people who start threads about pointless nonsense then bugger off after a few minutes because they are 'bored'

[yawn] right back at you.

My DH says cut-el-ry instead of cutlery

violence is never the answer

Fillimum, you need to 'losen' up.

Sorry...

'number of times', not 'amount of times'.

my dh says 'thee-ay-ter' which makes my teeth itch.

lost interest after reading your opening post fillimum. Been done to death.

Yawn.

shiney

who gives a shit/shite