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From: "Bergen, Jane" <janeb -at- ANSWERSOFT -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:39:44 -0500

I see this ALL the time and it makes me NUTS!!

Lose/Loose

It must appear incorrectly on at least one hundred web pages, not to
mention every spec in our company that was written by a developer.

Jane Bergen
Jane Bergen, Technical Writer,
AnswerSoft, Inc. Richardson, TX
janeb -at- answersoft -dot- com


On Monday, September 22, 1997 2:29 PM, TRIAD Services
[SMTP:TRIADserv -at- AOL -dot- COM] wrote:
> Okay, so aside from
> its / it's
> affect / effect
> your / you're
> all right / alright
> a lot ------> allot -----> alot
> who's / whose
>
> let's start listing some of our favorite illiteracies that pop up in
daily
> usage and see WHOSE wins the prize. <G>

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