24 hours Vancouverrors

My friend, Jason, posted the above picture on the Detected Errors page on Facebook. It's from 24 hours Vancouver - a free daily newspaper - on October 24, 2011. As you can see, a professional writer wrote loose when it should have been lose, and that person did it in a very large font, indeed. Jason wrote,

You get what you pay for, and this rag they have to force upon people as they cattle call their way onto the SkyTrain. But jeez Louise, on the same page? Have some professional pride, people!

Later that day,

I saw this headline in the same paper, just five pages after the lose/loose error. The apostrophe is in the wrong spot, as womens' should be women's.

Thanks, Jason!

Alexander hopes to loose between 30 and 40 pounds.

It's another lose/loose error, this time in "Jason Alexander new Jenny Craig spokesperson" in 24H Vancouver on January 7, 2010.

win the battle but loose the war

-- "Getting a letter of reference after a layoff" in Vancouver 24 hours on April 27, 2009

You will write a sentence but use the wrong word. You want lose, not loose.

Lose rock closes road

-- "Lose rock closes road" in The Province on October 26, 2008

The headline confused me even after reading it three times. I then had to read the blurb to make sure it was in fact an error.

Loose Weight!

-- Brentwood Town Centre in Burnaby, BC, Canada, on April 25, 2008

After you lose weight, your clothes will be loose. At least one other identical sign is located elsewhere in the mall.