I’ll tell you a pet peeve of mine.
When people mean “lose” and say “loose”. That annoys me to no end!
When people mean “lose” and say “loose”. That annoys me to no end!
Amen to that. I don't mind most misspellings, but I can't seem to get past this one. I can deal with "2 cool 2 b 4gotn" but "It's a bad thing to loose your mind" makes me crazy!
“When people mean “lose” and say ‘loose.’”
I think that is frequently a typo. I never hear anyone actually “say” loose when they mean lose. The error shows up in my own typing (I type phonetically, I guess—think choose and booze for example) and of course a spell-checker does not find it. If you are a fast typist, you do not type letters, but whole words, and do not think of the letters at all. It annoys me no end when I find I’ve done it. It has nothing to do with spelling ability.
Hank