My little rant

[hallii]

Now I am not a man to get upset easily, and having been educated at the finest state secondary modern school, technical college and finally obtaining my degree after five years part time study I still do not consider myself educated.

 

Some subjects, like English are a bit dubious and I frequently have to use spell checker.

 

BUT, for crying out loud, LOOSE means something that is not fixed properly, rattling around, about to fall off or whatever.

 

LOSE means to have lost it, disappeared or not to have won.

 

So write out 100 times "I will not lose the meaning of loose".

 

Rant over, I now feel better.

 

Hallii

[w1ntersun]

As in loose woman.

[Porky]

hallii - 2010-09-01 2:47 PM

 

Now I am not a man to get upset easily, and having been educated at the finest state secondary modern school, technical college and finally obtaining my degree after five years part time study I still do not consider myself educated.

 

Some subjects, like English are a bit dubious and I frequently have to use spell checker.

 

BUT, for crying out loud, LOOSE means something that is not fixed properly, rattling around, about to fall off or whatever.

 

LOSE means to have lost it, disappeared or not to have won.

 

So write out 100 times "I will not lose the meaning of loose".

 

Rant over, I now feel better.

 

Hallii

 

What on earth brought that on? THERE must be a reason for THEIR bad spelling.

[Rayjsj]

w1ntersun - 2010-09-01 3:11 PM

 

As in loose woman.

 

Or a Lost woman ?

 

think some folk have got rants in their pants ! 8-)

[Bazza454]

I think i'm loosing the plot here......

[spospe]

Hallii

 

There there, their loose spelling has caused you to lose your patience and it's a shame that they also don't know its very annoying to those of us wot have been brung up to spell proper like.

 

Michael (or Micheal as one forum member spells it) ;-)

[Andy_C]

It's because it's counter-intuitive, people expect the long 'o' sound to be 'oo' and the short 'o' sound to be 'o'

 

I'm forever getting it wrong - much to the annoyance of the OH :-)

 

I rant about people who put an apostrophe before the 's' in plural nouns...

 

Andy

[LordThornber]

This may wind some folk up then :D :D

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-11148527

 

Martyn

[Guest Tracker]

Their, their, poor old chap - no need to loose your cool.

[Guest Tracker]

Owed two a spell chequer

 

Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea

It plainly marques four my review

Miss steaks eye kin knot sea

 

Aye strikes a quay and types a whirred

And weight four it two say

Weather eye bee write or wrong

It shows me strait a weigh

 

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It nose bee fore two long

And aye can putt the error rite

It’s rare lea ever wrong

 

Eye have rung this poem threw

And I’m shore yore pleased two no

It’s letter perfect awl the weigh

My chequer tolled me sew.

 

Anon E Mouse

[dshague]

two tru traker

[Guest Tracker]

There are clearly sum errors in this little ditty - can you spot them?

 

For example -

 

'review' should be 'revue'

'shows' should be 'shews'

'soon' should be 'sewn'

 

Any more - anyone?

 

 

[vindiboy]

WAHT DFFIRECNE DEOS SEPLNILG MKAE.AS LNOG AS ALL LTRETES ARE IN A WROD. AND AS LNOG AS THE FRIST AND LSAT ARE IN THE RGHIT PALCE YOU CAN RAED THE TXET ???

[handyman]

I'm losing the plot here, or should this not be in chatterbox?

[Bazza454]

handyman - 2010-09-01 9:32 PM I'm losing the plot here, or should this not be in chatterbox?

Don't you mean loosing the plot????http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/images/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[sheer lunar-see]

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Edited by stevie wonder. sorry no spell checker available ;-) ;-) ;-)

[cheetahdavie]

Who gives a toss?

Loose..lose..youve lost??

My school was different..it was Approved..

[handyman]

Bazza454 - 2010-09-01 10:25 PM

handyman - 2010-09-01 9:32 PM I'm losing the plot here, or should this not be in chatterbox?

Don't you mean loosing the plot????http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/images/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Yes, thats correct................ mabye I should have put a winky smiley to make it obvious I was connecting my post to the original post? *-)