My achilles heel
I've had two comments in as many days about the same problem.
We all have our little blind spots. I regularly type "keybaord" instead of "keyboard", for instance. That's easy enough to spot & fix.
But my worst problem is one that a spellchecker just can't help: I keep writing "loose" when I mean "lose".
I've had this problem for years. I have no idea why.
We all have our little blind spots. I regularly type "keybaord" instead of "keyboard", for instance. That's easy enough to spot & fix.
But my worst problem is one that a spellchecker just can't help: I keep writing "loose" when I mean "lose".
I've had this problem for years. I have no idea why.
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My previous comment was made because I've seen that loose/lose confusion across so many written texts, including some online publication, to the point I started checking dictionaries to make sure the double O isn't an accepted variation spelling (it's not... yet).
man, you need to work on loosing that habit (oops!) lol.
It's one of those things that bugs me a lot. That and too and to.
My big ones are their and thier, form and from.
their annd they're get me.
Not to mention "and"... ;)
I think it's a bit problematic for me, as a non-native speaker. Typos (when I recognise them) are very disturbing, as my knowledge of the language is not inherent or automatic. At some level, I still decipher the text, moreso than in my native language. Hence the anal fixation I have with loose/lose.
Oh yes. . . To and Too are definitely annoying ones!
Another bugbear is using "of" instead of "have": "I should of spelt it lose."
It's not even a typo, it's completely the wrong word!
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