A spelling gripe

GaryLifo

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Okay, forgive the pedantic nature of this post, but I have been getting really annoyed with the way an awful lot of people confuse the words

LOOSE

and

LOSE

when referring to a team not winning a football match, the word lose or losing or losers is correct.

For describing the baggy fit of shorts for example, the word loose is appropriate.

I'm being picky, but having seen this mistake several hundred times, I just had to mention it.

Yes, I am a cnut. :D
 
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Originally posted by Neil Thomson:
<strong>FFS Why does everyone spell cnut wrong! :mad: </strong><hr></blockquote>

I'm going to have to pick you up on the use of an exclamation mark at the end of that sentence when it is clearly a question.
Try these helpful examples to help you learn:

I am a pedantic cnut! - exclamation mark
Are you a pedantic cnut? - question mark.

I hope that helps...
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Originally posted by Neil Thomson:
<strong>Even on rhetorical questions? BTW that wasn't a rhetorical question.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Do you mean "BTW that wasn't a rhetorical question!"?
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Originally posted by Neil Thomson:
<strong>Even on rhetorical questions?</strong><hr></blockquote>

What do you think?

: pedantictwatwink:
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Originally posted by Neil Thomson:
<strong>FFS Why does everyone spell cnut wrong! :mad: </strong><hr></blockquote>

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Originally posted by Dans:
<strong>

Do you mean "BTW that wasn't a rhetorical question!"?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Nah, if I did I would have put an emoticon as well. ;)
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