Loser

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Alice Faber wrote:

> You must not spend a lot of time on Usenet and web forums. Here's an
> example (the first one that came up when I searched google groups):
> <http://groups.google.com/group/alt.support.diet/msg/
> 71470cb3f1c853b7?hl=en&>

fairly extended discussion of the spelling "loose" for "lose" on
Language Log:

  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001983.html

arnold

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