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Originally Posted by Confucious is sex
Come come, if we are to have a thread on literature, surely we should not allow the written word to be devalued by careless spelling mistakes? Looses/loses is not even a homophone, there's no excuse. Nor will I accept dialectal variation as an excuse. Partly because this would be a variation of accent rather than dialect, and partly because no dialect of English that I am aware of conflates the pronunciation of these two words. Accent tends to vary vowel sounds, rather than consonant sounds; 's' for 'z' is laziness, or, perhaps if you'd rather, lasiness?
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At what point did we abandon reasonable scansion? "Looses/ loses [wasn't it 'losses'?] is not even a homophone [Full stop] There's no excuse [semi-colon or hyphen] nor will I accept [etc].
Judg/e not lest ye['] be judg[e][']d.