RE: Lose vs Loose

Subject: RE: Lose vs Loose
From: Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Beth Agnew <Beth -dot- Agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:20:59 -0500 (EST)

I have taught technical writing for 30 years. I see enough bad writing
to keep me constantly nervous about my own grammar and spelling.

Peter Sturgeon

--- Beth Agnew <Beth -dot- Agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca> wrote:

> I blame the sleeper effect. Not the one recently discounted
> (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper_effect>), but a similarly
> insidious
> persistence of bad grammar from non-credible sources. We've seen it's
> instead of its, they're instead of their, you're instead of your,
> etc. so
> often, in so many supposedly credible places, that without even
> thinking
> about it we write the incorrect word.
>

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