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To: Beckwith
Um, "loses" it. I don't often make corrections, but for some reason, a whole generation seems to have learned this one wrong and I'm curious about it. Did the schoolbooks get it wrong?

Loose (verb) means to loosen, untie, let loose, release from restraints, let fly (as an arrow).

Lose means to misplace, suffer loss, fail to keep control, be defeated, and so on. In this case, I presume Nancy Pelosi lost her mind and her composure in one great spasm. She shines at that.

34 posted on 05/30/2004 8:07:05 AM PDT by T'wit (Ya can't win! They say they want martyrdom but if you martyr some, the others get all bummed out.)
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To: T'wit

A lot(alot) of posters interchange looser and loser purposely as an inside joke. However, many don't actually know the difference. It's the same with to and too, there, their and they're, where and were(that one is baffling).
It's always been like that, especially among the engineer types. They know incredibly technical and difficult processes but they never learned any grammar.


47 posted on 05/30/2004 8:24:08 AM PDT by babaloo999 (Zionist troll since 2001)
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To: T'wit

You have been on FR long enough to know that lose/loose is not always a mistake. This is hugh & vey series.

OK Shower time for me. heh


63 posted on 05/30/2004 8:41:47 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: T'wit
...I presume Nancy Pelosi lost her mind...

I think her problem is she loosed (not a form of the word until now although FR spellcheck thinks it is :>) her mind.

Big mistake, she should constrain it.

108 posted on 05/30/2004 9:43:18 AM PDT by Syncro (Not only lost it, but mind you also out of her mind...)
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