Originally posted by: caligulathegod
Loose with two O's means not tight. Lose with one O means to not win or to misplace. Sorry, but that one drives me nuts.

I am pretty sure Zombie knows the difference between lose and loose. When proof reading such a large work, it is very easy to miss little things like that. I reassure you more scholarly works than Zombie's book have gone two or three editions without catching a mistake as small as the difference between loose and lose.

As for the immaculate conception, I can back caligula up on that one, it refers to Mary, not Jesus. Immaculate conception (clean conception, meaning conception without sin, not without the participation of a male as in the virgin birth), is often confused with the incarnation or virgin birth by non Catholics. I am not a Catholic, and have been corrected on the matter myself, for me it had always seemed natural to assume that "clean conception" refered to a conception without the "dirtiness" of sex. While most people probably don't even notice it, that bit does come off as a glaring mistake to anyone who knows the difference.