Why can’t people spell lose?!

[MsWalterMitty]

I love reading through the dieting topics on here, they’ve really helped and everyone’s so supportive…. Maybe i am BU!!!! But the amount of posters who can’t distinguish between lose and loose is really annoying!

To many mistakes too mention. It makes my teeth itch.
However, how anybody manages who has English as a second language is a mystery to me.
The one I can't get my head around is Sean Bean. That has to be pronounced either Seen Been or Shaun Bhaun, surely?

@Ffsjustltb

To many mistakes too mention. It makes my teeth itch. However, how anybody manages who has English as a second language is a mystery to me. The one I can't get my head around is Sean Bean. That has to be pronounced either Seen Been or Shaun Bhaun, surely?

We call him seen been in our house after my 8yr old called him this when she read his name… or should it be reed his name

@Ffsjustltb

To many mistakes too mention. It makes my teeth itch. However, how anybody manages who has English as a second language is a mystery to me. The one I can't get my head around is Sean Bean. That has to be pronounced either Seen Been or Shaun Bhaun, surely?

Just refer to him as ' that cockwomble from Sheffield '.........problem solved 👍

Reticent has apparently displaced reluctant.

Some people have difficulties with spelling for various reasons, and we all understand and accept that. Some people are just lazy and can't be bothered to learn how to spell properly.

On the other hand, some people know they are getting it wrong sometimes and genuinely want to do something to change that. For those who do want to learn, where better than a thread on Mumsnet, explaining the difference between (for instance) loose and lose?

It's a bit unreasonable to moan about other people's spelling mistakes when you haven't yet got the hang of countable and uncountable nouns, OP.
Number of people, number of books, number of mistakes.
Amount of milk, amount of love, amount of angst.
Can you see how the difference lies in whether they can be counted or not?
Fewer people, fewer loaves, fewer raindrops.
Less criticism, less bread, less rain

Cloths when they mean clothes.

@ParishSpinster

Accent. But what accent can make good not rhyme with food? I can't figure that one out.

I'm dying to know what accent you have that makes them rhyme?!

It's been instead of being for me, as in "I'm been really good this week". Urgh.

Led/lead annoys me!

@ParishSpinster

Accent. But what accent can make good not rhyme with food? I can't figure that one out.

@ParishSpinster

Well I have a south west twang but not much of a regional accent.

I can't spell how I pronounce Good. But it doesn't rhyme with food.

How do you say it?

'The one I can't get my head around is Sean Bean'

Sean is an Irish name i.e. a whole different language to English. Bean is an English word. Nothing baffling about it

I imagine, but am not sure, that people might think they pronounce "food" and "good" in the same way, but actually don't. Not exactly.
Some Scottish regional accents and some Midlands (around Birmingham) accents have a slightly shorter /u/ phoneme than the /u:/ that "food" has, which brings it closer to the /u/ in "good". (You hear some Birmingham speakers say "tooth" with a short "u" for example)
My grandfather (East Midlands) used /u:/ for both "book" and "food", whereas generally "book" is, of course, /u/.

Feint instead of faint. See so so many posts here relating to pregnancy or covid tests! I don't understand it.

I see a lot of 'thank you for excepting me' on a hobby Facebook page I follow, everything else will be spelt correctly but accepting/excepting seems to trip up quite a few.

God i know!

Or the difference between bought & brought arghhh it annoys me so much.

Or people say expresso instead of espresso lol very very annoying!

It's when personal trainers, specialising in weight loss, write it as "loose weight" in adverts. Loads of them do it, drives me batty. 😁

To/too
His/He's

I accept that there are people who had a poor education, but then again my parents had all their formative years at school disrupted by ww2 and they still managed. My grandparents had limited literacy (ww1).

I am not so bothered by these types of errors on social media as there are many reasons why. However, on company materials, business websites, learning/teaching resources, training materials and so on, it reflects badly. I have a friend who has many issues with learning, including dyslexia, and they're currently trying to set up a business. They're painstakingly making sure everything that is written to promote and explain their product is correct.

Here is a gentle lesson:-

Which is correct? What would you normally say?

Us are left looking like wankers. OR
We are left looking like wankers.

I think you would use the sentence which begins with 'We'.

Therefore, when you put in 'dyslexics' or 'shopkeepers' or 'farmers' still stay with that 'We', as in 'We dyslexics are left looking like wankers.' and 'We shopkeepers are left looking like wankers.' and 'We farmers are left looking like wankers.'

HOWEVER, IF we become the object of the sentence, things change, as in 'Spelling is difficult for us (dyslexics).' and
' The wet summer has been disastrous for us (farmers).' and
'The new currency has made life very difficult for us (shopkeepers).'

Yes, a farmer did once send me an e-mail which started with 'Us farmers' when he should have said 'We farmers' , but I tried not to hold it against him too badly.

Now, I've lost a lot of time typing this digression and I must hurry to the kitchen and make tea. I must be careful though, because I have a loose shoe, and I don't want to trip and lose my balance.

There are lots of things that make it harder for someone to learn the correct way to read and write. It doesn't mean you abandon the attempt. There's either something to learn or there isn't. Or we could just go back a few hundred years to when people used whatever spelling they liked (no standardised versions being taught, no dictionary etc).

@parishspinster good like should, food like mood.

Because some online SPAG programmes correct it! I couldn't believe it when I wrote lose correctly in context and the SPAG flagged it and asked if I meant loose. If I weren't a pedant, I'd have assumed it knew better than me and corrected it.

But meh... throughout history spelling has meandered around. If loose starts to mean lose, then we can adapt.

BTW, as I type the spell-check is flagging 'lose' as mis-spelled.