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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