Loose spelling?

gregbennett1973
gregbennett1973 Posts: 48 Member
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Has anyone else noticed the huge number of people on this forum who spell the word lose as loose. Is this another funny American spelling, or is it just an often repeated spelling mistake?

Back where I come from, loose is an adjective used to describe one's trousers (pants, for my American friends) having lost a lot of weight. And the opposite of to gain is to lose.

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  • heylookitsval
    heylookitsval Posts: 1,141 Member
    It's just people not knowing how to spell...

    Loose still means the opposite of tight.
    Lose is still the opposite of gain.
  • wild_wild_life
    wild_wild_life Posts: 1,334 Member
    It's just people not knowing how to spell...

    Loose still means the opposite of tight.
    Lose is still the opposite of gain.

    It's a funny American spelling, in the sense that Americans don't know how to spell...

    Obviously they don't know how to quote properly either . . . :)
  • gregbennett1973
    gregbennett1973 Posts: 48 Member
    It's just people not knowing how to spell...

    Loose still means the opposite of tight.
    Lose is still the opposite of gain.

    It's a funny American spelling, in the sense that Americans don't know how to spell...

    Obviously they don't know how to quote properly either . . . :)

    :-)
  • markiend
    markiend Posts: 461 Member
    English isn't the first language for every body here. If I were to be trying my best to wrote in a foreign language, there would be spelling errors, never mind typing ones.
  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    Has anyone else noticed the huge number of people on this forum who spell the word lose as loose.

    I also notice that people use periods where the should be using question marks.
  • skadoosh33
    skadoosh33 Posts: 353 Member
    Yes thank you, I can't believe how many can't spell lose or losing. I'm sure they have problems with your, you're, they're, there and their as well.
  • bloominheck
    bloominheck Posts: 869 Member
    Has anyone else noticed the huge number of people on this forum who spell the word lose as loose. Is this another funny American spelling, or is it just an often repeated spelling mistake?

    Back where I come from, loose is an adjective used to describe one's trousers (pants, for my American friends) having lost a lot of weight. And the opposite of to gain is to lose.


    hmm, I hadn't noticed before.:indifferent:
  • links_slayer
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    Yes thank you, I can't believe how many can't spell lose or losing. I'm sure they have problems with your, you're, they're, there and their as well.

    Don't forget to, too, and two.
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