Lose and loose

[flumperino]

I know I've whined about such things before......but I think this is the one that annoys me the most.

Things like their and they're I can understand, as they sound the same....but lose and loose are two completely different words that sound nothing alike. Similar to confusing the word carrot with potato.

[beerman]

Here's a few for ya flumps

their/they're
your/you're
of/off

[Nibb]

Fucking pedants!!

[purpleanimal23]

bought/brought - idiots

[super mike]

One that I have only recently been made aware of is stationary/stationery.

[Eric]

I know someone that likes a bit of a flutter on the horses, sorry, will bet on anything. On his arm he has a tattoo which reads " Born to loose"

[flumperino]

lolol, butchery of the English language

[Ganty]

Loose you're fucking attitude flumps...

[cyprus]

I think flumps has got a screw lose...

[neilb]

I loose it when I see people use draw for drawer.

[tawny]

I may have a lose grasp of what is going on here but dont loose you're head over it

[purpleanimal23]

Bunch of loosers

[PrideandPassion]

I can understand why people get these things mixed up, the english language is nuts look......


1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was
time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

[flukesy]

People on Facebook/MySpace using the word board instead of bored.

[MsDG]

I can't understand how your life can be so extremely dull that you have time to worry about people's typo's?

Just remember that who ever orginally invented the spelling of a word, totally made it up in the 1st place... so chill the fuck out!

[flumperino]

I actually get more emotional about errant apostrophes

[Mr.James]

I actually get more emotional about errant apostrophes

thats just crazy

[Simate]

Close (residential), close (shut something) and close (near by).

[Clubber Lang]

Accept and except

[Geko]

I know someone that likes a bit of a flutter on the horses, sorry, will bet on anything. On his arm he has a tattoo which reads " Born to loose"

That's doubly annoying.

As "Born too loose" would work. But probably suggest he is a bummer.

Or "Born to lose" as he intended would also make sense.

But the way it is. It doesn't make any grammatical sense.