LOOSE:
1 a: not rigidly fastened or securely attached b (1): having worked partly free from attachments <a loose tooth> (2): having relative freedom of movement c: produced freely and accompanied by raising of mucus <a loose cough> d: not tight-fitting

LOSE:
1 a: to bring to destruction —used chiefly in passive construction <the ship was lost on the reef> b: damn <if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul — Matthew 16:26(Authorized Version)>
2: to miss from one's possession or from a customary or supposed place
3: to suffer deprivation of : part with especially in an unforeseen or accidental manner
4 a: to suffer loss through the death or removal of or final separation from (a person)

This seems to be the most commonly misused word pair. Definitions courtesy of http://www.merriam-webster.com/

Anybody else want to report on abuses of the King's English? All abuse reports should be anonymous as we are not picking on any individual, rather just looking at common mistakes. I'm sorry. I notice these things. Now I just wonder how many mistakes I made in this post.

Yay! The Spelling Nazis are here!

huh

Also....

there and their they're

too two to

an & and

were, where and we're

And the big one...your and you're

wanna play 52 pickup

Oh yeah, I have seen 42,889 profiles where they say "I'm tired of dating loosers."

Some more I like:

"Looking for a sweat heart."

"No smockers please."

"Hoping to find a fiend."

Actually, if you check out the "One Glorious Profile" thread, now on a monitor near you (in living color, assuming you have a color monitor), you will see thousands of hilarious examples of profile-derived Manglish (mangled English). It's almost a cottage industry at this point.

Looking for a sweat heart??

I feel like Marvelous Marv Throneberry in the Lite Beer commercial. "I knew this was a bad idea".

totally agree with your nomination for the "big one"

and don't forget each other is two words

Oh! A lot is also two words.

Sh!t Lex! I'm busting a gut.

How about up dere

vrs

up air

One of my favorites from OGP was a profile where it appeared the woman had messed up one of her personal statistics. She wrote "I am 192, 5 ft. 6 and 155 pounds."

My comment was "This is the oldest person I have ever seen on a dating site."

Tru dat...wut up wit dat shizznit....

Well now those kinds of typos are just funny. It's the use of the language that makes me wonder how people even got out of school sometimes.

I type the way I speak so ur just gonna have ta deal wit it. My southern twang ain't gonna go nowheres, nope, nah uh, no ways, no hows

Phuque2,

Please speak English. Respond if you understand this message.

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