English Language - what "Does your head in" ??

[Audax67]

C.f. Buñuel's film of cheese mites. There's organic for you.

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Down-side: Of course spelling affected in a negative way by ubiquitous auto-correction, the dreadful and patronising spawn of the spell-checker… What modern person can be bothered to a) turn the feature off b) check and struggle with further automatic features to edit the word or phrase to its correct version and c) be bothered to look it up if uncertain?

But why would an autocorrect function change lose to loose? They're both common English verbs...

Jonathan

It might not change one to the other, but it will often prompt lose when you want loose, and vice versa. As to why they're so easily confused, it's probably at least in part because the difference in spelling is in the vowel, but the difference in pronunciation is in the consonant. Also, loose is far more common as an adjective than a verb.

[Jdsk]

From another thread:

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Anthelios it's called if you're looking for it, if (a) it exists in the UK and (b) you can stand mixed Latin and Greek roots.
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I think that both roots are from Greek:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anti-#English
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/helio-#English

Jonathan

[Audax67]

From another thread:

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Anthelios it's called if you're looking for it, if (a) it exists in the UK and (b) you can stand mixed Latin and Greek roots.
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I think that both roots are from Greek:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anti-#English
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/helio-#English

Jonathan

Well, I will be dipped in σκατά. Apollogies to their marketing lizards
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[Jdsk]

: - )

Jonathan