Lose/Loose

[Christy]

"That My Mind's Weapon CD's shit."

Seems OK to me.

Haha I assume you're having a giggle. That is fine, as it is an abbreviation. People writing 'got any new CD's' is what gets my goat.

I wisnae sure if you were being sarky.

Love from Christy

[lepeep]

"That My Mind's Weapon CD's shit."

Seems OK to me.

you knicked my joke from page two you sneak!

http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums/general-discussion/51388-lose-loose-2.html#post685147

[KimyReizeger]

I think it's the worst (your / you're) becuase they are two different words / meanings, even if they do "sound the same"...as for loose and lose...

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Emm, there are two different meanings for lose and loose aswell... o_O It's much easier and more forgivable to write words that sound the same incorrectly.

[Lemonade]

Could of. That fucking bugs my happiness.

'I could of been a millionaire'.

Of of of....have have have....how tough can it be? Everyone's a cunt.

Love from Christy

Edit: And while I'm at it, the misuse of apostrophes. People writing CD's and DVD's. Cunts cunts cunts.

That also applies to "must of", as in, "that must of hurt". I agree with the lose/loose thing, that's bugged me for ages.

The one that always gets me is in a fish & chip shop in Fraserburgh. There's one of those scrolling signs inside that says "Our fish are freshly cooked to insure it is of the highest quality".

Also, here's a glaring error I snapped a few months ago, right across the road from the chip shop actually. There's just no excuse for this.

It's gone out of business now, which frankly it deserves to.

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

No No, Fraserbrugghe, as it should be spelt, is a charming town, quite near Petertwerp.

[Jeanette]

The one that always gets me is in a fish & chip shop in Fraserburgh. There's one of those scrolling signs inside that says "Our fish are freshly cooked to insure it is of the highest quality".

You should tell them... That's awful!

[Hugh_Jazz]

....and while we're ranting, this goes out to all the illiterate cocks who send me Christmas cards/letters etc. My name is Neil....not Niel.

EDIT: I love you all really.

[Bigsby]

....and while we're ranting, this goes out to all the illiterate cocks who send me Christmas cards/letters etc. My name is Neil....not Niel.

That's you off my Christmas card list.

[Kaizen]

That seriously grinds my gears. I see the word photo's every day and feel like giving english lessons to everyone who does it.

That would be fine if the sentence was, "This photo's nice isn't it?" wouldn't it?

[Teabags]

Emm, there are two different meanings for lose and loose aswell... o_O It's much easier and more forgivable to write words that sound the same incorrectly.

*ahem* you were about 15 hours late with that one...

shows how much of a cock I am. Loose and Lose are two different words...not "just" a spelling stimake...oh the shame.

[Guest Tam o' Shantie]

some crackers here Bad Gas: Bad Language

[Kaizen]

There is, of course, always, the famous, "All your base are belong to us!" against which, I feel, all others are simply insignificant.

Wow that sentence has loads of commas...

While I'm at it! Did you know the sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo" makes perfect sense?

[Lemonade]

5 'ands' in a row.

The landlord of a pub called The Pig And Whistle asked a signwriter to make a new sign. When he saw it he thought that the words were too close together so he said to the signwriter "I want more space between pig and and and and and whistle".

[Bigsby]

Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead.

[Lemonade]

11 "hads" in a row:

Ted and Fred had a grammar test. They were given the sentence: "by the time they got home they ______ dinner". They had two choices to fill the blank.

a) Had - they had dinner

b) Had had - they had had dinner.

Ted, while Fred had had 'had', had had 'had had'; 'had had' had had the teacher's approval.

[KimyReizeger]

Ted, while Fred had had 'had', had had 'had had'; 'had had' had had the teacher's approval.

Cracking.

*ahem* you were about 15 hours late with that one...

With all due respect I've literally got no idea what Lepeep's going on about most of the time.

[Teabags]

Fit fit fits fit fit?

[Dianne]

That would be fine if the sentence was, "This photo's nice isn't it?" wouldn't it?

Yes, obviously. I was meaning when used in the same way as Christy mentioned - CD's, DVD's etc.

[soundian]

Edit: And while I'm at it, the misuse of apostrophes. People writing CD's and DVD's. Cunts cunts cunts.

That's not a misuse of apostrophes, it's just the way it used to be, and still is, done. It's more common to miss it out nowadays, saving the apostrophe to denote possession (and of course the abbreviation for "is"), but the use of an apostrophe in the plural is not incorrect.

[Alan Cynic]

This lot say an apostrophe should NEVER be used in plurals....

Apostrophe Protection Society

I've seen it used to replace a missing letter....so maybe there's a case for it being in photos to replace the missing 'graph'.....although I wouldn't use it myself.

[lepeep]

Cracking.

With all due respect I've literally got no idea what Lepeep's going on about most of the time.

I'll take that as a condiment then.

[Frosty Jack]

Some say it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to pluralise an acronym, but it's highly debated. The reasoning seems to be to use it only when absolutely necessary to clarify that a plural is meant, for example if for some reason the acronym had to be in lower case and adding an s on its own would appear to be part of the acronym, although I can't think of any reason why an acronym couldn't be in capitals. Some would write dvd's, but this could better be written DVDs, and this makes more sense in case you have to use the apostrophe to denote possession eg "where is the DVD's case". What if it was the possessive of the plural? "Where are the DVDs' cases?"

But then there is the pluralisation of a single letter, where it may be the only way - "the word Mississippi has four i's"

This leads to another classic - its or it's? In this case the possessive does not use an apostrophe so as to distinguish it from the contraction of it is, or it has.

"It's been put back in its place"

Don't get me started on "I would of went"

or using less instead of fewer. "I've been less times than you"

I spend far too much time on this kind of stuff, but I do think it is important.

[soundian]

Some say it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to pluralise an acronym, but it's highly debated.

Which is different to incorrect.

.... although I can't think of any reason why an acronym couldn't be in capitals.

Although words like LASER and SCUBA look weird when capitalised.

Some would write dvd's, but this could better be written DVDs, and this makes more sense in case you have to use the apostrophe to denote possession eg "where is the DVD's case".

I see the sense, but my fingers sometimes have a mind of their own and keep going back to the old habit of typing CD's for more than one CD.

I think it's probably only become an issue because acronyms are so much more common now than before the second world war, where (mostly military) acronyms really started to enter common speech. In the 19th century I'm sure they never talked of RBEs instead of reciprocating beam engines but I bet you that's what they'd be called if they were invented tomorrow.

[Lemonade]

"Much" instead of "many" gets on my tits.

eg. How much Yorkshire puddings do you want with your dinner?

"How much pairs of socks are in that drawer?"

Another misuse of the apostrophe is after decades - eg "Hits of the 1980's"

[Memphis Skyline]

Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead.

That was our pub quiz team name a while back and no-one laughed at all.

I spend a great deal of my working day correcting other people's spelling and grammar. While stray apostrophes are irritating, my personal pet hate is the random capitalisation of letters for no apparent reason. Day of the week? Yes that can have a capital. Spring, summer, autumn and winter cannot.