Losing not loosing!

There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

Loosing is not a word!

/end venting
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  • butterbean4283
    butterbean4283 Posts: 258 Member
    Also, please note the difference in there, their, they're, to, too, two, its, it's, your, and you're. :)
  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    You're post is awesome. I hope their will be at least to people who learn from this.
  • Also, please note the difference in there, their, to, too, two, its, it's, your, and you're. :)

    You forgot "They're".
  • You're post is awesome. I hope their will be at least to people who learn from this.

    LOL. **** alert.
  • Textmessage
    Textmessage Posts: 387 Member
    Huge expectations, OP. One can dream though!
  • cazzer69
    cazzer69 Posts: 162 Member
    There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

    Loosing is not a word!

    /end venting

    If you let loose the hounds....you would be loosing them.
    Just saying it's a word...
  • Monica_has_a_goal
    Monica_has_a_goal Posts: 694 Member
    I pay more attention to the meaning of the statements ..
  • TrailRunner61
    TrailRunner61 Posts: 2,505 Member
    I think that most of us are smart enough to understand whether a person means loose or lose. It's not that hard. Who cares?
  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
    No matter how many times this gets posted, people still will use lose and loose wrong. :grumble:
  • stephdeeable
    stephdeeable Posts: 1,407 Member
    Thank you for fixing the internet!
  • There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

    Loosing is not a word!

    /end venting

    AMEN!
  • There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

    Loosing is not a word!

    /end venting

    If you let loose the hounds....you would be loosing them.
    Just saying it's a word...

    No, you wouldn't be loosing them... You would be RELEASING them.
  • There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

    Loosing is not a word!

    /end venting

    If you let loose the hounds....you would be loosing them.
    Just saying it's a word...

    No, you wouldn't be loosing them... You would be RELEASING them.

    On this note.

    WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!!
  • sigsby
    sigsby Posts: 220 Member
    There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

    Loosing is not a word!

    /end venting

    That being said... I am looooooosing weight!!! :bigsmile:

    LOL
  • I think that most of us are smart enough to understand whether a person means loose or lose. It's not that hard. Who cares?

    You care enough to comment... Clearly that's something?
  • mfoy94
    mfoy94 Posts: 228 Member
    You're post is awesome. I hope their will be at least to people who learn from this.

    their lol.
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    It really shocks me how frequently this exact same topic comes up on the message boards!
  • There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

    Loosing is not a word!

    /end venting

    That being said... I am looooooosing weight!!! :bigsmile:

    LOL

    Hhahaha. A-hole. :P
  • cazzer69
    cazzer69 Posts: 162 Member
    There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

    Loosing is not a word!

    /end venting

    If you let loose the hounds....you would be loosing them.
    Just saying it's a word...

    No, you wouldn't be loosing them... You would be RELEASING them.

    loosing present participle of loose (Verb)
    Verb
    Set free; release: "the hounds have been loosed".
    Untie; unfasten: "the ropes were loosed"
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    as a nonspeller i feal excluded from this concarsations can this be a group instad thank u i aslo dont use puncturation
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    I think that most of us are smart enough to understand whether a person means loose or lose. It's not that hard. Who cares?

    That is very true, but whenever I see incorrect words loose vs. lose, two vs to vs too... I read the sentence as if someone were saying the wrong word.

    If I see, "I am loosing weight," I don't read it as "I'm losing weight," I read it as "I'm LOOSing weight." Or "I am going too work", I don't read it as "I am going to work," I read it as "I am going TOO work."

    Maybe I'm just too literal when it comes to reading the English language.
  • There is a difference people! Losing is the correct way to say, for example: "I am losing weight."

    Loosing is not a word!

    /end venting

    If you let loose the hounds....you would be loosing them.
    Just saying it's a word...

    No, you wouldn't be loosing them... You would be RELEASING them.

    loosing present participle of loose (Verb)
    Verb
    Set free; release: "the hounds have been loosed".
    Untie; unfasten: "the ropes were loosed"


    Notice they don't have a sentence with the word "loosing"? Exactly.
  • mfoy94
    mfoy94 Posts: 228 Member
    and btw loosing is a word, google it if you dont believe me.

    edit: present participle of loose is loosing
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    It really shocks me how frequently this exact same topic comes up on the message boards!

    Welcome to MFP. It must be your first day here.
  • shammxo
    shammxo Posts: 1,432 Member
    Thank you for fixing the internet!

    :drinker:
  • realme56
    realme56 Posts: 1,093 Member
    It really shocks me how frequently this exact same topic comes up on the message boards!

    But the folks "loosing" weight don't see it!!!!
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    I know, this bugs me as well, and I have to try really hard to keep calm when I see it. I wonder if this spelling is ok in England or other countries, as I see it so often.
    I see it so much, and the wrongness of it is so ingrained in my head, that the other day I accidentally typed "My pants are getting LOSE" and then quickly realized what I had done. lol.

    After awhile you get used to seeing it. No amount of threads about it will correct the problem. Some people are just not that concerned with their spelling and grammar. MFP only gives grades for weight loss, NOT for spelling and grammar mistakes!
  • Really? Concentrate on losing weight, not on other people's grammar mistakes...
  • chica6578
    chica6578 Posts: 76 Member
    and technically eventually loosing could turn into a form and or variation of losing. So long the general public continues to use in that context. I remember reading that somewhere, if the 'made up' word is used enough, and a general term known to most, then it technically is no longer made up. i cant remember the detail just a phantom of a possible reading memory lol
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