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Spelling standards slipping at The Examiner?

  • 19-02-2017 1:04pm
    #1
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭


    I see The Examiner has decided to adopt the new fashion of mis-spelling the word 'loses' and 'lose'.

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/11-year-old-looses-fight-for-life-after-belfast-incident-777855.html

    This must be a new trend in media - replacing the spelling of the word 'lose' or 'losing' with 'loose' and 'loosing'

    There is no such word in The Oxford English Dictionary as 'loosing'. The nearest word is 'loosening'

    Is this an Americanisation of the word 'lose' or is it just a new Irish fad of some sort?


Comments

  • #2
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Just to say they've since corrected this typo.


  • #3
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    It's just poor standards of spelling and grammar among writers that slips through to the final version because of the wholesale cutting back of subeditor and proofreader jobs


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