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So when are they going to allow 'Loose' as an alternative spelling for 'Lose'? Surely more people use this than use 'jeggings'?
I'm fed up of getting growled at* as a "Grammer Nazi" (sic) for correcting people on this, and I'm fed up of seeing commercial publications that should know better making this mistake.
For the love of all things shiny, just put me out of my misery and include 'Loose' as an alternative spelling for 'Lose'. Then I can stop twitching.
(*in my Growlery...top word, I shall strive to reintroduce it)
"At this rate people will soon be confused at Dr. Watson's proclivity to ejaculate at every turn."
Ah, yes, well....
And I did point out the Bleak House reference before I came to your posting.
And you say "nobody reads Dickens anymore." I think that perhaps very few people actually read anymore; isn't there that well known oxymoron "Sun reader" often mentioned in the press?