On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:07 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 17/11/2013 03:44, Andrew Berg wrote: >> >> On 2013.11.16 11:02, Paul Smith wrote: >>> >>> The one that really irks me is people using "loose" when they mean >>> "lose". These words are not related, and they don't sound the >>> same. Plus this mistake is very common; I typically see it at least >>> once a day. >> >> Don't be surprised if such people pronounce them the same; a lot of >> such errors are caused by learning incorrect pronunciation. For >> example, people often write 'should of' because that is what they >> hear (and what they end up saying). >> > I get annoyed by those who say "pronounciation"...
I decided a while ago that my life would be alot better[1] if I didn't get annoyed at misuse of English, but instead used it as a source of amusement. Oddities can be found everywhere... our hymn book at church has one nasty oops where a "not" is mistyped as "now", rather changing the sense of the sentence. And sometimes it doesn't even take a single letter of difference - someone who'd recently been doing all the touristy stuff around Europe was discussing the historical Battle of Thermopylae, and said "Some of us were there (pause) earlier this year" - several people began snickering in the pause. ChrisA [1] Bahahahaha, trolled you! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
