Thursday, December 13, 2007

Loose Lips, Sync Slips (or "Bout to Loose My Mind)"

Too often of late, I have been coming across this error as shown in the following quote about Hillary Clinton:

There is no reason to believe that the nomination is still not hers to loose.

This was not a typo because the follow-up sentence repeated the same error:

But she's clearly showing a capability to loose and lost the air of invincibility against which each of her fellow competitors have had to struggle.


A quick google will find "loose" being misused for "lose" even in headlines.

If this keeps up, umm-egos, I may loose my marbles.

1 comment:

Christopher said...

If you loose your marbles, that would be a deliberate misuse of them. And you're likely to lose some of them to boot.

Some of these politicos are persons of loose speech.