Flare vs flair

"Newps" wrote in message
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To make my reclining years more comfortable, please stop using the word
"flair" when discussing landings.

Oh no. Not until people stop using loose for lose.

I had a journalism and media ethics professor who habitually mispelled it.
His students habitually pointed it out to him. In light of that, he admitted
at the beginning of the term that he'd probably mispell "lose" at least once
during the term, and that it was okay to correct him on it even though it
wouldn't make any difference.

The easy way to remember it is " 'Lose' is a four-letter word."

-c

Orval Fairbairn wrote in newsrfairbairn-
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"Quilljar" wrote:

Or "its" for "it's" or "there" for "their" or "they're". Or "height"
for "altitude". Or "think" for "believe". Or "Web" for "Internet".
Or "insane eccentricity" for "precision".

- Andrew


Actually, more people use it's when they mean its (possessive) :-)

I think that a lot of the problem arises from the proliferation of voice
recognition technology and the failure to proofread.

I'll agree to that one. I peruse several science related
news web sites and I have been seeing an alarming amount
of typographical and grammatical errors. Some I can readily
tell are caused by errors in electronically scanning printed
text. The rest could be explained by what you propose, voice
recognition.

In all cases, there is a definate lack of proofreading among
these 'professional' writers. I thought they went to school?

Brian
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"Montblack" wrote in message ...
("Quilljar" wrote)
Actually, more people use it's when they mean its (possessive) :-)


I'm seeing that fewer and fewer, these days.


Montblack

It's true, I'm seeing its use less and less...

Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:48:35 -0600, Newps wrote:


Bob Gardner wrote:


To make my reclining years more comfortable, please stop using the word
"flair" when discussing landings.
Oh no. Not until people stop using loose for lose.

Or "its" for "it's" or "there" for "their" or "they're". Or "height" for
"altitude". Or "think" for "believe". Or "Web" for "Internet". Or
"insane eccentricity" for "precision".

And many persons use "since" when they mean "because". The former
denotes a time period (e.g., since WWII) whereas the latter speaks of
causality (e.g., because he broke the law he was punished).