Loosing

JOhnH said:
Why do so many otherwise intelligent people continually say "loosing" instead of "losing"?
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for the same reason some people spell their name JOhn instead of John? WOOOHOO JK John. or is it JOhn. I dunno. I'm going with 'because some people don't know how to spell'.
 
eman1200 said:
for the same reason some people spell their name JOhn instead of John? WOOOHOO JK John. or is it JOhn. I dunno. I'm going with 'because some people don't know how to spell'.
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Actually, it's not the same reason. JOhn was a one time typo during registration. I don't know how to change it, and at this point, I dont' want to.
But a lot of people continually misspell "losing". I have misspelled it myself a few times, but I usually try to correct it.

As for punctuation, "guilty as charged". (see what I did there).
 
Hmmm....

If you chose to loosen a tie-down you might lose your too-loose aircraft and have to choose a new hobby.

A fellow engineer once pointed out to me that anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word must have very little creativity.

He also taught me that when in doubt about (or should that be "in dout aboubt?") using one or two consonants, I should always use three. Since no word has three (litttle, diffferent, botttom, etc.), my reader will assume (asssume?) I just fat-fingered the keyboard, rather than being too stupid to know how the word should be spelled.

Or should that be spellled?
 
luvflyin said:
Say?? I aint never heard no one say 'loo sing'
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The one that drives me crazy is when someone tries to use the word moot, but says and spells it mute.

Its MOOT!
 
I know there is a word called "segue" and it means "to lead in to." But in my entire life, I have never seen it spelled other than "segway" when used in that context.
 
Similarly, mispronouncing nuclear or realtor or recurring bug me.

When I'm caught mispronouncing a word, I try to make it a point to avoid doing so in the future.

Oh, and I learned something today:

"...the usual rules of English spelling outlaw triple letters. We put hyphens in words that contain three of the same letters in a row, so as to break the letters up, e.g. bee-eater, bell-like, cross-section, cross-subsidize, joss-stick, and shell-less. A person who flees is a fleer, not a fleeer, and someone who sees is a seer, not a seeer. Chaffinches used to be called chaff finches, but when the two words were merged, one of the letter 'f's was dropped. That said, written representations of noises often contain triple letters, such as brrr, shhh, and zzz."
 
Ravioli said:
Hang on here @JOhnH. Did you mean they SAY "loosing" or did you mean they WRITE "loosing?"

[And how did it take me 20+ posts to catch that little piece of fun?]
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Good catch Rob. Caught him at his own game. :D
 
Auto-correct doesn't help the matter. It always seems to choose an inappropriate word. to my eyes, a properly spelled, but inappropriate, word is harder to see than an incorrectly spelled word.
 
Zeldman said:
It's CANADA geese.... not Canadian geese. They are a species, not a citizen of Canada.
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Don't take the fun out of it; they're the only Canadians I can legally shoot. (And if you lived here and saw what the wintering crowd from Ontario and Nova Scotia does to our traffic, you'd want to shoot them, too.)
 
SkyDog58 said:
Well then I guess I shouldn’t have called CBP on a flock that I thought I saw enter illegally.
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They probably had their passports with them.....

Half Fast said:
Don't take the fun out of it; they're the only Canadians I can legally shoot. (And if you lived here and saw what the wintering crowd from Ontario and Nova Scotia does to our traffic, you'd want to shoot them, too.)
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I have seen their little calling cards left on runways that can really affect (or is it effect?) braking action.....
 
Living down south, idea and ideal. As in "I ain't got no ideal what you're talkin' about, but I'm fixin' to learn."
 
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