RE: Lose vs Loose (was Re: Items in a Series and Comma Use?)
Subject:RE: Lose vs Loose (was Re: Items in a Series and Comma Use?) From:"Nuckols, Kenneth M" <Kenneth -dot- Nuckols -at- mybrighthouse -dot- com> To:"Beth Agnew" <Beth -dot- Agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:21:41 -0500
Beth Agnew wrote...
>
> I blame the sleeper effect. Not the one recently discounted
>
> [snip]
>
> contraction it's, but I find myself typing the wrong one at the wrong
time
> on too many occasions. Usually when tired, overworked, or sending an
e-
> mail to a list to be read by thousands of people so that I can be
utterly
> humiliated in public.
> --Beth
>
Shouldn't that be the "sleepy effect"? ;-)
...just another off-duty grammar cop killin' time at the Dangling
Participle Donut Shoppe... ;-)
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