What Are You Saying
@just4him (308637)
Green Bay, Wisconsin
January 3, 2016 7:22pm CST
One of my hugest pet peeves is spelling. The one word that is my biggest pet peeve of all the misspelled words is LOSE.
Lose is when something is lost.
Loose is when something is ready to fall off
Loss is when you lost something
Lost is when well it's lost.
We are about to play a great football game we hope we will not lose not loose. It will be great if we don't lose not loose this game as we don't need another loss. It would be sad if we lost not loss this game.
There are a lot of other words I see that are misspelled, but lose is the one that just makes me cringe and makes me wonder if you know what those words you're using actually mean.
I'm not talking about words that are typos that spell check would catch, but words that are actual words and not used correctly.
Please watch the words you use. You can change the whole meaning of your post with a misused word.
Thanks for reading.
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@DeborahDiane (40094)
• Laguna Woods, California
4 Jan 16
One of my pet peeves is your vs. you're. My niece is a college graduate and studying to get a teaching certificate ... and she uses the wrong form of your all the time!!
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@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Jan 16
Your right. Your only going to get more and more frustrated if you're niece gets ger teaching certificate and can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're." A similar one is "there." I get driven nuts when my students abuse "there," "their" and "they're." (I was going to misuse my apostrophes to (sic), but couldn't bring myself to due (sic) it.)
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
4 Jan 16
One of the very reasons @marlina that the USA went from being #1 in the world to #27 in English. And these kids graduate from high school???????
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Okay, that was bad. I don't know when the last time mine did cooperate fully with me. @nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
4 Jan 16
I know @just4him , it drives me crazy too. As a former editor, I see so much of it. The ones that drive me crazy are: their, they're and there.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
4 Jan 16
@just4him And today with text-speak, it's no wonder these kids can't spell even the simplest words. Another set that gets me is: who's and whose.
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@just4him (308637)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Jan 16
@nanette64 I admit, that one confuses me. I'll write it one way, look at it, change it, read it again, and change it back and hope I've got it right. I don't know the rule on that one.
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@LadyDuck (460403)
• Switzerland
4 Jan 16
I have noticed that more English speaking people make spelling mistakes than non speaking. I believe it's because we translate the words from our native language, so we immediately see the difference. (Exampla, I think in my language lose= perso loose=sciolto and so on).
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
4 Jan 16
We all have our pet peeves, and we all make mistakes of course. I saw someone posting the loss of a friend and commented about their pasting. (passing). I almost corrected them, then stopped and moved on, would have been a tactless time to point it out, but it was so wrong and annoying! lol
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@just4him (308637)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Jan 16
I know, and I know the site is great for teaching the fundamentals of English for those whose first language isn't English, and I know I would sound annoying in another language if I even attempted it. Which I can't. But as I mentioned this is more for those who know English well and are too lazy to use the correct words. If they don't know it, so be it.
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@Marilynda1225 (80164)
• United States
4 Jan 16
Not only misusing a word but how about mispronouncing words when speaking. I knew someone who always said trapsize instead of traipsing. It still drives me crazy whenever I think of it and I'm not even friends with her anymore
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@just4him (308637)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Jan 16
Or mispronouncing spaghetti with a b at the beginning.
@paigea (35825)
• Canada
4 Jan 16
I find that one annoying too unless it is someone learning English - then I admire them for trying..
One that bugs me is - of when it should be have. As in "My husband should of done the dishes". I know it's because we say should've but it stands for should have! Any way I know I make some mistakes too. I correct them sometimes when I go back and see a comment I wrote with a big glaring error!
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@FibroGodess (540)
• United States
4 Jan 16
When my daughter was in 1st, 2nd, and third grade, the teachers didn't bother correcting spelling. I was told they allowed the misspelling to encourage the children to write and put words together. This bothered me. In 4th grade my daughter's English teacher called me aside during a "parents night", to tell me I needed to teach my daughter the correct spelling of words because points would be taken off for misspelled words. I was furious!
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@just4him (308637)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Jan 16
I would be too. Did you tell her what the other teachers were teaching the children?
My son was in special education, and I wasn't happy with the way they taught children to read. He brought a book home, sat beside me and started 'reading'. He flipped the pages in the right spot, everything, then I looked at him and he wasn't even looking at the book - the teacher had taught them to memorize the book, not to read it.
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@just4him (308637)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Jan 16
@FibroGodess From what I've seen in children today, they are capable of so much more than we gave them credit for when I was in school or even my children. I look at my two-year-old great granddaughter who already knows how to work the remote to get the shows she wants on the television.
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@FibroGodess (540)
• United States
4 Jan 16
@just4him The teacher just said it was common practice. I started teaching my son phonetically how to spell. He was reading simple words at age three. When he went to Head Start, the teachers were shocked that he could read the milk carton out loud. They started leaving him notes on the board like, "clean your mess and then you can play". He would do what the note asked and then go to his teacher and tell her he completed it. lol He was 4 yrs old
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@WorkAtHomeGal (229)
• Canada
4 Jan 16
Ah yes I often remember the spelling of lose and the other ones you mentioned but I can be bad for doing stupid things like saying "hear" instead of "here" here meaning here now not hear as in hearing. I know the difference but sometimes I guess I forget what is what.
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