My dad makes errors like typing/spelling loose for lose. He is not using an iPhone or any sort of smart phone. It's not an auto correct issue. He is American, through and through, not a non-native speaker. I don't think he is paying attention to what he types.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like the bulk of this forum are highly educated people, so why so many posts from people who want to "loose" weight?

That's the correct spelling in my ethnic group.

People with iPhones are an ethnic group?

Certainly.

Do you understand the difference between race and ethnicity?

Focus, please. Jokes are supposed to be funny.

Says who?

Loze the attitude

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like the bulk of this forum are highly educated people, so why so many posts from people who want to "loose" weight?

That's the correct spelling in my ethnic group.

People with iPhones are an ethnic group?

Certainly.

Do you understand the difference between race and ethnicity?

Focus, please. Jokes are supposed to be funny.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like the bulk of this forum are highly educated people, so why so many posts from people who want to "loose" weight?

That's the correct spelling in my ethnic group.

People with iPhones are an ethnic group?

Certainly.

Do you understand the difference between race and ethnicity?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like the bulk of this forum are highly educated people, so why so many posts from people who want to "loose" weight?

That's the correct spelling in my ethnic group.

Which ethnic group? Just curious.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like the bulk of this forum are highly educated people, so why so many posts from people who want to "loose" weight?

That's the correct spelling in my ethnic group.

People with iPhones are an ethnic group?

I got a "Mary Christmas" email this morning...

Anonymous wrote:It seems like the bulk of this forum are highly educated people, so why so many posts from people who want to "loose" weight?

That's the correct spelling in my ethnic group.

Loose/lose isn't that big a deal to me and like others have pointed out, it's often an auto-correct thing. The one that drives me bananas is ect instead of etc. How to people get through college, or heck, even a magazine or newspaper article w/o figuring that one out? It's ET CETERA or etc not ect. It's NOT ec tetera.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like the bulk of this forum are highly educated people, so why so many posts from people who want to "loose" weight?

This misspelling bothers me more than any other, and is extremely common. It seems that more than half the time in any user forum that "loose" is written when "lose" is intended. ( But you never see people write "noose" when "nose" is intended. )

That's probably because that thing on my face that I use to breathe, except when I have a cold, is not pronounced "nooze".

They are the same people who don't know how to use affect and effect and lay and lie. Drives me nuts.

I think breath/breathe bothers me more.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like the bulk of this forum are highly educated people, so why so many posts from people who want to "loose" weight?

This misspelling bothers me more than any other, and is extremely common. It seems that more than half the time in any user forum that "loose" is written when "lose" is intended. ( But you never see people write "noose" when "nose" is intended. )

Stupid or lazy. Or both.

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Anonymous wrote:The loose vs. lose issue in DCUM is annoying, but my major spelling/grammar issue on this site is the frequent use of the (not a real) word noone. People, "noone" is NOT a word! The correct form is no one. For the love of my poor OCD brain, please stop using noone!!!

It should be, though. Nobody, nowhere, nothing, noone.

I think Chaucer used "noone" for "noon"...and that makes more sense than using it for "nobody", etc.

It needs that New Yorker diaeresis mark, like coöp: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis

Chaucer's spelling was not exactly what we'd considered standardized. It might also actually have been more phonetic than our standardized spelling, but it's not my field of expertise, so I might be totally off the mark about that.