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How good is your spelling?

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  • #32
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    I'd like to take this opportunity to tell people:

    Lose - Be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something): "I've lost my appetite".

    Loose - Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached: "a loose tooth".


  • #33
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,229 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    mathepac wrote: »
    You'd hate my local butcher and mini-market so. On Saturday the butcher was selling "lion chops ..." and the mini-market has been asking us to "... use the thongs provided... " when selecting loose confectionery items.
    Quite clearly, the butcher hopes customers will improvise catapults to fire confectionery at the lions.


  • #34
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Dave147 wrote: »
    I have a compulsion about spelling, it would ruin my day if I realised I had spelled a word wrongwrongly/incorrectly. Even with 'spelled' I believe that or 'spelt' is now acceptable. It is something I have always prided myself on, I may not know the meaning of a word, but I know damn sure how to spell it!

    Fixed it for ya!:D

    tac


  • #35
    franc 91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭franc 91


    Spelled and spelt have always been acceptable - and both are given in the grammar book that I use and that I recommend to my students - First English Grammar by C. Blisset and K. Hallgarten (formerly published with the title A Very Simple Grammar of English - I don't know why they had to change it).


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