Loose vs lose

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

Bumping for others to witness this necessary PSA :P

Thank you! This drives me crazy.

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!"