Loose vs lose
Supertact
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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
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
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maybe some people can loose weight much like a kraken?0
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:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:0
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Yeah...I often see that too but what can you do...correct that loose and hope they lose it0
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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.0
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My life has been changed.0
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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 > pie0 -
Brb......Where's my dead horse?0
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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.0
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"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.0 -
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.0 -
Hey, never a bad thing to nudge people in the proper grammatical direction0
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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
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That being said, not everyone has English as a first language.0 -
Bumping for others to witness this necessary PSA :P0
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It does not matter. We know what each other is talking about.0
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Thank you! This drives me crazy.0
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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.0 -
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!"0 -
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 bets0 -
Too long, didn't read.
Don't care.0 -
Loose is what your cloths are going to be after you lose.0
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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:0 -
The fact that people always get this wrong on here gives me the ****s!0
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