Loose vs lose

Supertact

The words loose and lose are mixed up in writing; for some reason, many people write loose when they really mean lose.

Loose

Loose is an adjective, the opposite of tight or contained.

My shoes are loose

I have a loose tooth

There’s a dog running loose in the street


Lose

Lose is a verb that means to suffer the loss of, to miss.

I win! You lose!

Don’t lose your keys

I never lose bets

meshashesha2012

maybe some people can loose weight much like a kraken?

FatFreeFrolicking

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

2BeHappy2

Yeah...I often see that too but what can you do...correct that loose and hope they lose it

Sobus76

I've seen that two, I dont think people on the inter-webs care about they're spelling or were they put there apostrophes. Sometimes I forget how to speel sew i cant' judge others that dont have spell cheque on.

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3dogsrunning

My life has been changed.

brower47

Let me try.

I need to loose some wait while simultaneously losening this square not.

Did I do it write? Is their a prize?

I heard there would be punch and pie. *even though cake > pie

SLLRunner

Brb......Where's my dead horse?

Did you lose your dead horse....or did you lest it loose? :bigsmile:

LumberJacck

I used to agree totally... until I started teaching someone English. I guess if someone has English as their first language, then you'd probably expect a higher standard, but consider other countries such as the Philippines and India. Both of those have English as a legally official language, but their usual standard is not of a high quality usually. I guess it's just one of those things, people are not perfect at English, just like they aren't perfect at weight loss.

aedreana

"Loose vs. lose: "

The dilemma one might face when deciding whether to LOSE weight, knowing that by doing so they might end up with LOOSE skin.

amusedmonkey

It doesn't annoy me much. I cannot bring myself to judge another person's education or where they choose to spend their energy. The meaning is usually clear from context.

What does annoy me, however, is text slang. It takes time and effort to decipher it. If ur riting lik dis. plz stp.

DecemberPsalm

Hey, never a bad thing to nudge people in the proper grammatical direction

trinatrina1984

The words loose and lose are mixed up in writing; for some reason, many people write loose when they really mean lose.

Loose

Loose is an adjective, the opposite of tight or contained.

My shoes are loose

I have a loose tooth

There’s a dog running loose in the street


Lose

Lose is a verb that means to suffer the loss of, to miss.

I win! You lose!

Don’t lose your keys

I never lose bets

kikityme

That being said, not everyone has English as a first language.

Jen800

Bumping for others to witness this necessary PSA :P

RodaRose

It does not matter. We know what each other is talking about.

DeadsAndDoritos

Thank you! This drives me crazy.

jtm4210

I find this insanely annoying (as well as their/there/they're, affect/effect, accept/except etc etc etc) HOWEVER this is my personal bugbear and I'm not going to take correctly written nonsense over poorly written genuine good advice and interesting comments from kind strangers on the internet who have taken the time to share their thoughts.

I'll save my fascist grammatical tendencies for when I have children.

jtm4210

I remember this poem being required reading at school.

"I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!"

_Zardoz_

The words loose and lose are mixed up in writing; for some reason, many people write loose when they really mean lose.

Loose

Loose is an adjective, the opposite of tight or contained.

My shoes are loose

I have a loose tooth

There’s a dog running loose in the street


Lose

Lose is a verb that means to suffer the loss of, to miss.

I win! You lose!

Don’t lose your keys

I never lose bets

If that's your biggest worry in life you must live a charmed life. It may be irritating but some people on these boards English is not their first language. We know what they are talking about so in reality the problem is your not there's.

aguycalledsteve

Too long, didn't read.

Don't care.

CMarieVirginia

Loose is what your cloths are going to be after you lose.

paperpudding

Totally original topic OP.

No one has mentioned this yet in the year or so I have been a member.





Well, maybe just once or twice........



Per week :laugh:

rsmithy89

The fact that people always get this wrong on here gives me the ****s!

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