“ Lose” and “loose”

Doodle
Brilliant!
I just needed to say that as I live in Scotland but was not educated here I fear the mighty have fallen.
The worst spelling and grammar I have ever seen is on my local town facebook forum. With added swears!

What about off of. ? Surely the 'of' is unnecessary?

Off of the grass was a little elf who lived on the green space over the road.

I was educated "dahn Sarf" but also get irritated at poor grammar. Spelling less so as I am the world's worst typist so make a great number of errors.

I would add 'loss' to this as well.

I have my irksome favourites too. I shall list them:

Draws for drawers.
Breaks for brakes.
Weary for wary.
Loath for loth.

My absolute teeth gnasher though is when people say how they are "Defiantly" going to do something.

She would of done it, doesn't mean I would of done.

Of when they mean have is my fingernails down the blackboard moment!

Loose trousers are useful in the loos.

Lose weight with one less O. (the really pedantic would say one fewer but they wouldn't need a mnemonic to remember it by. They wouldn't end a sentence with a preposition either.)

Since this is Pedants’ Corner, I feel duty bound to correct Elegran’s Shakespeare quotation. It’s “Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war”, not “let loose the dogs of war”.

Thank you, Grandma70s