RE: OFF-TOPIC Loose and lose

It's not the level of bad spelling in general that gets to me. I've come to expect that, and I use my spell-checker as a crutch as heavily as the next person (okay, admit it, haven't we all called up a word processor at least once exclusively to check the spelling of a single word because 'I can't remember where I put that paper dictionary'? I know I have).

No, the interesting phenomenon is loose vs. lose. I've seen technical material that is otherwise perfectly spelled, but lose is misspelled consistently.

Well, now I've got myself so self-conscious that I just spell-checked this email before sending it.

And no, I've never figured out if it's supposed to be disk or disc. I think I'll do what I usually do when in doubt about English spelling: I'll blame the French.

Chris Gait
Who can't spell 'queue' without a spellchecker. Ever.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:carmichr_at_hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 4:14 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: OFF-TOPIC Loose and lose
>
>
> I notice... all the time... all the misspellings. I have a
> proofreader's eye
> I think, my eye naturally goes to the mistakes.
>
> I just try to bite my lip and not say anything
Received on Wed Jul 19 2000 - 18:59:18 CDT