Loose vs. Lose!

[UrsulasShadow]

would have been thrilled with a few hundred but $900.00 i was flawed..........

I think she meant "floored".

 

[Safari Queen]

Was she from New England? That would make it phonetic spelling. After all, desks and dressers here also have "draws".

 

[kaytieeldr]

Nah - New Englanders would spell it phonetically: floo-ahd

 

[UrsulasShadow]

Nah - New Englanders would spell it phonetically: floo-ahd

(ahem)..that would be flow-ahd.

 

[Safari Queen]

You're right. Maybe Southern? By the way, UrsulasShadow, shouldn't you be crawling out for "lawb-stah"

 

[chirurgeon]

has someone mentioned yet (this thread is NINE pages! YIKES!) all the times people spell definitely as DEFINATELY?

jon

I will admit to this one. I think everyone has one or two words that they don't spell right.

Kim

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Raised hand... I'm guilty... I just did "dos" for "does"

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Raised hand... I'm guilty... I just did "dos" for "does"

That's a typo, not a blatant mutilation of a word.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

My nominee for today's winner is the person who only does something on occasion and calls it "sparaticly". It took me awhile to work out what it was even meant to say! I thought "separately"? No. Then I got it. Sporadically.

 

[cathy_s]

What makes me crazy is dividing an item "between" three people. The word is among. Between implies two. Among will work for numbers greater than two.

I'm surprised to see that nobody has mentioned the great lie/lay issue.

I'm going to lay down for a nap.

Are you going to LAY an egg during the nap?

 

[kaytieeldr]

Okay, I don't go looking for these things, I really don't... but while searching* for information on the Dockers promotion, I came across what is apparently a cruise trip report titled "____ ____'s Repossession Repo Cruise" (name removed to protect, well, myself from attacks ).


Some spelling 'cheats':
. . . definite/definitely: I am sure; I am really sure.
. . . separate (one of my banes): sep-A-RAT-e.
. . . accommodate: two couches (CC) and two mattressess (MM)
. . . alcohol: I give up. I will never get this one right. Are they sure there aren't two "h"s?

But I don't have any cues for words like "sparaticly" (and, yes, I did use 'cue' as I intended ) Oh, and since I brought it up - the many creative spellings of the word "queue" can be entertaining. Just my opinion, but the safest route when someone is unsure of that word is "line"

cathy s: On a similar note, less and fewer. "Less" indicates a lower but indeterminate number; "fewer" is used when the number can be counted. Example: I have never seen a retail express lane sign stating "12 (14/8/10) items or fewer", despite that being the correct usage. Next time I'm bored and in the supermarket...

*The search feature actually does work - IF your default setting is California Gold.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

I had earphones on with the vowel turned up

OOOOOOOOOO! Or is it EEEEEEEEE?

 

[kaytieeldr]

No! It's AAAAEEEEIIIIOOOOUUUUandsometimesYYYY!

 

[hematite153]

My DW would like me to say that this is her second favourite* thread on the disboards.

*Note: we're Canadian so this 'u' is intentional. It actually bothers me to see words with their dropped letters and I have to remind myself that it is a correct spelling, just a regional one.


She'd also like me to add....

definite/definitely: root word is 'finite', therefore remembering two 'i's shouldn't be that difficult since you'd never see 'finate'.

 

[turkygurl]

My current biggest pet peeve is "notate." It's either annotate or note, not notate. Notate is to write down music notes. Annotate is to furnish explanatory notes, and note is to put a written record.

 

[L&Lfan]

It's A E A E I O U U and sometimes Y (I.O.U.) by Freeez in June of 1983!
#1 on the dance chart for 2 weeks

 

[billysotherdad]

Genuine question here - in US English what does 'gotten mean'? Is it just used instead of the word 'got'?

It's used in English (UK English) in such phrases as 'ill-gotten gains" but other than that does not really figure in our language

Ah, the dreaded "Gotten". I read about this in a "day-by-day" calendar that one of my students got for me for Christmas. The calendar was a "Most Un-Common English" thing, with a different grammar mistake or misuse on each page.

Gotten is the past tense of GET. However, it came over to the Americas with the British, but over time, it seemed to drop out of all UK vernacular, and only American's have held onto the word. We use it in a way that no other English speaking country does. It is reported that the UK only use it in the way that you described "ill-gotten means" or the like. We use it as "I would have gotten the bread yesterday if you told me we were out of bread." Or, "She had gotten the infection from bad seafood."

Apparently, it is now a wholly American term. However, we got it from the British, but they just stopped using it altogether over time.

There you go.

 

[RickinNYC]

Good God in Heaven. My boyfriend sounds like a fancy pants.

 

[Tosie]

I recently read a post from a person who's relative had been diagnosed with "altimers."

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Paraphrasing a previous post: Mah boy's done gone an' gotten one of them thar ole plain shiny hay-id haircuts fer the doo-ration of the present hot-spell...

(SO NOT a fancy-pants out here in the sticks)