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Not worth getting upset about. Personally, I'm more concerned that we're going to lose the word "lose". Everywhere I look, I see people sticking an extra o in t
by chaosmachine 16y ago
Not worth getting upset about. Personally, I'm more concerned that we're going to lose the word "lose". Everywhere I look, I see people sticking an extra o in there. "You loose" etc.
- leif 16y agoYo' momma loose.
- georgieporgie 16y agoI suggest a new, combined form: looose. The meaning will be drawn from context. I anticipate efficiency improvements world-wide.
- mahmud 16y agoThe English language doesn't have a word with three or more repetitions of a letter. "LOOOL" and "mmmmmmuah" excepted.
- baddox 16y agoorly? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/viii http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/viii
- hugh3 16y agoVIII? That's not a word, it's a number. Or, more accurately, it's a representation of a number using characters which happen to be letters of the alphabet.
- baddox 16y agoJust as words are representations of ideas using characters which happen to be letters of the alphabet. This is all sarcasm, by the way.
- jplewicke 16y agoFrom /usr/share/dict/words on OSX, I get the following: whenceeer (probable corruption of whenceever, and hence not legit) wallless bossship demigoddessship goddessship headmistressship patronessship
- nollidge 16y agoFirst one is probably a contraction missing the apostrophe: "whencee'er". But that doesn't explain why "wheree'er" doesn't show up.
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- jtheory 16y agoAgreed, that's a much harder one to swallow. Sure, languages change over time and so on, but there's already a verb "loose", meaning "release", more or less. When I become a billionaire and there are trespassers on my estate, I want to be able to cry "Loose the hounds!" without my overly-subservient toady thinking he should misplace them.
- smcl 16y agoOr "then", as in "My spelling is worse then a child's"