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Why do so many people in the U.S. spell "lose" wrongly?
I'm just curious. Here in the UK there are words that are commonly spelled wrongly, but on YA, loads and loads of people write "loose" instead of "lose". So much so that it's almost become an alternative spelling. I wonder why you can get mistakes that only occur on the american side of the Atlantic, and probably some others that only occur on our side. Please note that I'm not saying people in the U.S. are bad spellers. I'm sure there are good and bad spellers over there just as over here, but it's strange that there should be some errors you only get in one location. Any ideas?
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- JenLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
I think that it spreads. If the only times I'd ever seen "lose" spelt, it'd been spelt wrong, I may believe the "alternate" spelling.
I think it's surroundings. If you grow up with common misspellings, you are much more likely to emulate them in your own writing.
- 1 decade ago
The word "lose" is actually one of the 83 most commonly misspelled words. Oddly enough, so is birthday. You would not think it would be, but it is. At least I would not expect it.
- 1 decade ago
Quite simply they do not understand the difference between loose
(not tight) and lose ( to mislay something or to not win)
- 1 decade ago
idk, but its the same for Colour / color, quite alot of the american vocabulary is shortened because of lazyness. they even shortened the way they say Aluminium, its strange but they cant say it...
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