Thursday, June 11, 2009
Is it just me, or have a lot of people been misspelling "lose" as "loose" laately?
"loose" is that thing your skin gets when you're old: "lose" is when what you got gets gone
"lose" or "loose"
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2 comments:
Another one that bothers me is "then". People use it as "sooner then later." Totally bugs me. It's "sooner THAN later."
The bizarre thing is that, technically, they're not wrong: "sooner" precedes "later"
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