That's my brother & I at my aunt Mary's wedding. I was a Junior Bridesmaid, which, in my mind, made me mature enough to drive a car. Ironically, im 30, and apparently still not equipped to drive legally by myself....
Anyway, KJ and I were emailing each other today and she spouts this grammar correcting email response to something I wrote:
"BTW, loose and lose are not the same word :P
It’s a giant pet peeve of mine."
Ive never claimed to have copy-editor quality grammar skills, but something sparked inside of me when I started to think about it, and I responded:
"Ive been doing that since the third grade. And probably will not stop.
Loop…hoop…boop…coop…it makes the ewww sound. Im going to petition that “lose” be corrected in the dictionary as it should be properly spelled: LOOSE. My superior brain actually corrects it, despite what we’ve all been taught.
So lose has the ewww sound, so do we pronounce pose? “puze”?.....rose is “ruze”….dose is “duze”…
Im taking a stand against society as a whole for allowing this to go on as long as it has. Im going to petition “Society” to change “lose” to “loose” and officially call it a heteronym. It shouldn’t cause any harm.
Heteronymy. Heteronyms are homonyms that share the same spelling but have different pronunciations. That is, they are homographs which are not homophones. Such words include desert (to abandon) and desert (arid region). Heteronyms are also sometimes called heterophones. ("Heteronym" also has a specialised meaning in poetry; see Heteronym (literature).)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
Screw you wavy red lines!"
So there you have it. Im going to take stand and continue spelling "lose", as "loose", just because in my opinion, its correct. I would encourage you all to do the same.
Dont forget to keep those elbows on the table....(Which KJ doesnt like either...)
feel free to vent your own personal gripes with the english language.
UPDATE: LIVING ROOM AND UPSTAIRS HALLWAY ARE PAINTED!!! I bought too much paint so I have PLENTY to paint the den, which needs it desperately!
Oh yeah...One more quicky home improvement....I was never crazy about the light fixture in the dining room, but didnt want to spend $150 bucks on a new light. I dont even know what you call these things....sconces? vases? Anyway, I noticed I could just pull them off. So I went to lowes and picked up six of these for like $3 a pop and turned this:
INTO THIS!!!
Im REEEELY proud of this one - a 15 dollar improvement as opposed to a new $150 light. >patting myself on the back<
I told John if I got the den painted tomorrow we were celebrating at Haps...I think he might pitch in with that one!!!
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