FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

This is the thread to help correct the many misspellings and butcherings of the King's English found here on the forum.

One of the many errors I see is people spelling "lose" as "loose". I suppose its because "choose" is spelled the way it is.

So for the record: "lose" rhymes with "choose", "loose" rhymes with "goose".

Used in a sentence: "I will LOSE my temper if people CHOOSE to live as LOOSE as a GOOSE."

Feel free to address any other common mistakes found here on AFF. If we're going to be legalistic about something, let's be grammar legalists!

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

What really burns me are all the people here who keep mixing up night with knight.

"We will not go quietly into the knight!"
http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics...night-6963.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xGL76f2v1dA/0.jpg
http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/up...ight-Rider.jpg

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

Your/You're

It's YOUR choice whether YOU'RE going to Heaven or not.

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

One that bugs me in real life is the idea/ideal.
As in "I have a great ideal!"...
Arghhhhhh

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

Ha ok, I consider this a personal problem,
since the meaning is still received,
but apostrophe's before esse's (s)
imply "ownership."

My mother's apron was a big hit with the other mothers.
The only exceptions are if/when articles of speech
(its, theirs, ours...and the commonest one,
which is escaping me at the moment) have possession,
no apostrophe is needed, and will be read as a contraction of "is."
It's considered perfect because of its beauty.

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

Aha! Found one! I had to read it twice, but I found an error in your post. It was worth the effort. :happydance

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

lol. I think maybe that was the most common one.
"it's" is always "it is."

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

Yes! Have to love the irony! :lol

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

In the spirit of legalism...it should be "Queen's English."

Re: FYI: It's "Lose", Rhymes with "Choose"
 

Well for that matter this may as well become a grammar spelling class thread because i see so many peeple righting stuph and it doesnt make since to me becuz im such a purfecshonist does anyone else fill the same way as me i mean it only makes since to no how to spell and speak and write and reed and....

Well, you get the point...

For the most part, I can interpret different styles of writing, which is why I rarely say anything if I do.