Pet Peeve of the Week:
People who spell the word “loose” when they really mean “lose.” My professor in the graphic design class did this on Monday night, on a slide that spoke about the importance of paying attention to the details, no less.
Every time I read about how someone always “looses” their keys or “looses” their train of thought, I picture keys flying free, and a train running rampant down the tracks. Although loosing and losing, say, a tiger might have the same effect, they don’t mean the same thing!
Mine is when people use a word in a sentence, but spell it as its homonym. For example, “he red the words strait off the page”. Argh. The “loose” and “lose” is really annoying, as well.