Loose rhymes with goose. Lose rhymes with shoes.

Not picking on anyone's posts or commenting on any particular thread, but this is just a little something that I've taught to my nieces/nephews that helps them a lot. 

LOL!  No, come on, let's pick on posts....    Can I add that 'hungry' means you want something to eat whereas 'hungary' is a country in Eastern Europe... ?

Love this !! Stuff like this drives me crazy too !

As a fellow grammar diva, I thank you!

HAHA being a misspeller, I got the totally wrong message from this post, but I think it works too:

loose rhymes with goose (fat goose, yuck)

lose rhymes with shoes (so get out there and move/run/exercise) if you wanna lose that weight you big fat goose!

Original Post by gi-jane:

LOL!  No, come on, let's pick on posts....    Can I add that 'hungry' means you want something to eat whereas 'hungary' is a country in Eastern Europe... ?

This one is my favorite!! Thanks for the smile, gi-jane :)

My personal pet peeve is the lost distinction between "your" and "you're." Drives. Me. Crazy.

Tom, Peter and I me misuse personal pronouns on a regular basis.

I'm hungary for a turkey baked in greece.

Is the moon full again already?  It seems like we just had this discussion.

Original Post by elisescrane:

My personal pet peeve is the lost distinction between "your" and "you're." Drives. Me. Crazy.

 Mine is "there", "their", and "they're".

I left Turkey for Hungary.

Original Post by trhawley:

Is the moon full again already?  It seems like we just had this discussion.

 yes, the 'Full Cold' moon to be exact, quite spectacular really. 

i saw the full moon on my way to work this morning - i agree

spectacular (for a moon)

Well that settles it.  The loose v. lose topic comes with every full moon.

I am so glad someone piped up about this...it does bug me a bit.  Understandable that when typing fast, or on a laptop mistakes can and will be made...but there are just too many to list w/ loose vs lose.

Signed,

The Grammar Police

SO...

You're rhymes with pure and your rhymes with door. I think I get it  or maybe not, meh.

Caint we all jest git alonk? Mebbe your jest loosing you're mindes? It ken happen when the moon is fool in Hungary!

Original Post by trhawley:

Well that settles it.  The loose v. lose topic comes with every full moon.

 unless it's the weigh vs weight discussion...

weight for it.......

ugh - i hate these threads.  they just make the bad spellers defiant.

Original Post by bagga:

Original Post by trhawley:

Is the moon full again already?  It seems like we just had this discussion.

 yes, the 'Full Cold' moon to be exact, quite spectacular really. 

 Yes it is. :)

Original Post by kathygator:

Original Post by bagga:

Original Post by trhawley:

Is the moon full again already?  It seems like we just had this discussion.

 yes, the 'Full Cold' moon to be exact, quite spectacular really. 

 Yes it is. :)

 Moon snuck out last night. I heard her crying when SO got up at 5:00 AM, I thought she was in the garage, but she was on the roof of the garage, AGAIN. She wouldn't come down, but she kept crying. I went back to sleep. She was at the back door when she heard me at 6:45. She was cold and then she ate like a pig, so yes, the Moon is full, but she's warm and sleeping now.