tinhat
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Egad! I can't believe I'm posting to a spelling and grammar conversation. An apostrophe can be used to show plural of an abbreviation. Photographs becomes photo's.
I'm with you Julia, so don't have any regrets about your post! What is even more amazing (and irritating) is seeing a sentence like this: "I sent the photo's to my friends." If one plural requires the apostrophe, why not the other? It is not even logical. And yet if I point it out I am met with blank stares. I think we have a moral obligation to attempt to uphold standards in spelling and grammar.
Sure, but such a practice is almost never seen and can lead to ambiguity. If I were reading a sentence where you were referring to photo's, meaning the plural of one photo (a word we all clearly understand as short for photograph) I think the average reader would find their comprehension of the sentence interrupted while he/she wondered if you were somehow referring to the possessive.Egad! I can't believe I'm posting to a spelling and grammar conversation. An apostrophe can be used to show plural of an abbreviation. Photographs becomes photo's.
lose [looz] verb (used with object), lost, los·ing.
1.to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
2. to fail inadvertently to retain (something) in such a way that it cannot be immediately recovered: I just lost a dime under this sofa.
3. to suffer the deprivation of: to lose one's job; to lose one's life.
4. to be bereaved of by death: to lose a sister.
5. to fail to keep, preserve, or maintain: to lose one's balance; to lose one's figure.
loose [loos] adjective, loos·er, loos·est.
1. free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered: loose cats prowling around in alleyways at night.
3. uncombined, as a chemical element.
4. not bound together: to wear one's hair loose.
5. not put up in a package or other container: loose mushrooms.
It's not that HARD !!!!!!!!
Normally I am not a spelling-Nazi!:
Whinging or loosing?
But these two words are the most important in our universe.
lose [looz] verb (used with object), lost, los·ing.
1.to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
2. to fail inadvertently to retain (something) in such a way that it cannot be immediately recovered: I just lost a dime under this sofa.
3. to suffer the deprivation of: to lose one's job; to lose one's life.
4. to be bereaved of by death: to lose a sister.
5. to fail to keep, preserve, or maintain: to lose one's balance; to lose one's figure.
loose [loos] adjective, loos·er, loos·est.
1. free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered: loose cats prowling around in alleyways at night.
3. uncombined, as a chemical element.
4. not bound together: to wear one's hair loose.
5. not put up in a package or other container: loose mushrooms.
It's not that HARD !!!!!!!!
There would be quite some competition from "your" instead of "you're" and "there" instead of "they're".Disputably the most misspelled word on the internet.. Lose is opposite to win and loose is opposite to tight. Easy way to remember.
Disputably the most misspelled word on the internet.. Lose is opposite to win and loose is opposite to tight. Easy way to remember.
This is only the second time I have seen/heard this word used. The first time was in "Pirates of the Caribean" when Captian Jack Sparrow provided the correct enunciation to a harlot in Tortega. I had to look it up. Today the meaning has taken on a negative connotation where originaly it could be used in a complementary manner.
You learn something every day. (apologies for any spelling errors.)
... don't get me started ...
... "I of twenty dollars in my wallet".
It took me several seconds to figure out what that was supposed to be."Mind due" really gets me.
That was certainly the case when you and I were taught grammar, but now old fashioned.Well, you know, we aren't supposed to start sentences with conjunctions in general and fragment sentences with coordinating conjunctions. Although many people can't help but using subordinate conjunctions as sentence starters. Oh well.
"Mind due" really gets me.
"Mind due" really gets me.
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