Losing vs. Loosing

[Jack Flash]

I think that in Australia (possibly England as well) it is common to refer to bullets as "heads". Whether it's slang or not, I believe it is in common usage in their reloading communities.

Anyways, if an Englishman wrote
"My spare tyre is in the boot."
Would you say
"That dummy can't even spell "tire" and how can he have one small enough to fit in a boot?"

 

[StakeOut]

Misuse of there when the poster should have typed they're or their is probably the most common error I've seen on this forum.

Next would comparatives using more instead of er and ier.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

OMG not this again!! KNAVES!!

Search the archives!

It was a WIFES and WIVES!

Is KNAVES plural of KNAFE?

 

[Doug627]

I'm loosing my mind!

 

[BAM-BAM]

Another "First world problem"...... caused by spell check!!!!!!

Heck it don't even have half the words you need to post here!!!!

 

[BigBill]

There or their?
Loser or losers?
Agussets or. Gussets?

I don’t know anymore I’m too old to care as long as we understand it. Remember that second is the first place looser or is it loser? Lol

 

[ACORN]

I need advise on this to. I'm prolly just dumb, and my grammar isn't excellant, but I'm not gonna let it chace me off the Interweb.

Hey! Interwebz be plurel!

 

[Bekeart]

I am at a loss ...

But why is "loosing" used so often when what is meant is "losing"? From "loosing" weight to "loosing" things.

I am at a loss to explain.

I have no respect for a man who can spell a word only one way. - Mark Twain

 

[glenwolde]

Irregardless, I think your loosing site that you just need to let it lie.

 

[Onomea]

I'm loosing my mind!

... on an unsuspecting world! (Chaos to ensue, no doubt!)

 

[Univibe]

Like muzzle "break " instead of brake.

 

[CH4]

People who live in glass houses...

 

[Krogen]

I'm amazed the misused apostrophe hasn't been mentioned.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I keep an Oxford comma in my wallet just for sentence diagram emergencies.

 

[Golphin]

What is really bad I have heard people pronounce it loose instead of lose while speaking English. Like "did you loose your pocket knife"

 

[Rustyt1953]

I've heard more than one old timer use the word "unloosen".

Far be it from me to correct them.

 

[Jack Flash]

Irregardless, I think your loosing site that you just need to let it lie.

Thanks for that advise.

 

[REM 3200]

ODE TO A COMPUTER SPELL CHECKER

Eye halve a spelling checker,
it came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques four my revue
miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
and weight four it to say,
weather eye am wrong oar write
it shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
it nose bee fore two long
and eye can put the error rite,
it's rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it,
eye am shore your pleased two no
it's letter perfect awl the weigh
my checker tolled me sew

 

[Rustyt1953]

I've trotted this out before:

"cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too."

 

[bill2000]

Here's one I haven't seen before. It was a want ad on Facebook. "Ware can I buy a baby rabbit?" Come on people.