# Loosing vs. Losing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036 "2016-10-19T15:57:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/61 "2016-10-21T13:23:10Z")
A couple for me. “Dinning room”, WTF? Honestly. One dines in the dining room. Palate/Palette/Pallet. HOLY SHIT. If I read another newspaper story/food blog/restaurant review/advertisement/whatever that tries to “tempt my pallet/palette” I’m going to scream. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/62 "2016-10-21T13:29:07Z")
> [@orderfire](#): > > A couple for me. > “Dinning room”, WTF? Honestly. Maybe it’s a room where you go to scream and stamp your feet for distressing purposes or something. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/63 "2016-10-21T14:03:21Z")
No problem understanding each word. Often just spell them wrong, making it look like I mean one, when I mean the other. I bet that’s really what you are seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/64 "2016-10-21T14:26:33Z")
_Weary_ instead of _wary_. The first one rhymes with _beer E_ and means _tired_. The second one rhymes with _bare E_ and means being cautious, as in the related words _aware_ or _beware_. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/65 "2016-10-21T14:30:00Z")
Also, it’s predictive text that fucks up words, not autocorrect. Autocorrect is useful, predictive is the one you have to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/66 "2016-10-21T14:30:25Z")
At an amusement park where I once worked, there was a diving horse. On rainy days it was dangerous for him to dive, so a sign was put up that said **Rex is “resting” today**. That always bugged me. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/67 "2016-10-21T14:34:48Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > At an amusement park where I once worked, there was a diving horse. On rainy days it was dangerous for him to dive, so a sign was put up that said **Rex is “resting” today**. That always bugged me. Unless they were trying to imply that Rex was drunk. But yes, people who don’t understand what quotation marks mean… I “dislike” them. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/68 "2016-10-21T14:36:10Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > At an amusement park where I once worked, there was a diving horse. On rainy days it was dangerous for him to dive, so a sign was put up that said **Rex is “resting” today**. That always bugged me. Better than admitting he’s dead. He’s probably nailed to his stall. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/69 "2016-10-21T15:03:47Z")
Pedal vs petal and breathe vs breath often get to me, if only because they’re less common mistakes (as they’re less commonly used than say, their/they’re/there). For some reason the breathe/breath one just makes me irrationally mad. I think it’s because breath and breathe are pronounced so differently, and the e is NOT silent, that I can’t understand how someone could type. “I needed to breath and calm down.” If you think that’s how you spell breathe, then how do you even rationalize how the word breath is spelled? What do they think breath would be spelled like in that case? Breat? ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/70 "2016-10-21T15:05:31Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Maybe it’s a room where you go to scream and stamp your feet for distressing purposes or something. In that case, maybe I need one for when I am faced with terrible grammar errors. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/71 "2016-10-21T15:10:36Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Maybe it’s a room where you go to scream and stamp your feet for distressing purposes or something. :smack: That should have said “for destressing purposes”; autocorrect "fixed’ it for me. Although if you have a distressing purpose for screaming and stamping your feet, hey, that’s your business. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/72 "2016-10-21T15:36:14Z")
Oh, I have another one that I’ve seen people on this forum do: _rational_ instead of _rationale_. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/73 "2016-10-21T18:39:16Z")
Ones I’ve seen professional writers make: “Elude” for “Allude” “Respectful(ly)” for “Respective(ly)” “Illicit” for “Elicit” ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036/74 "2016-10-22T07:16:26Z")
Misuse of the verb borrow instead of lend hurts my head. “Hey, borrow me a dollar.” “And then I borrowed him my car.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loosing-vs-losing/769036.md?page=3)