Loose? Looser?

[Hammerwerfer]

Of all the spelling mistakes one sees on the internet, the confusion between "loose" and "lose" has me baffled.

Lose is opposite of win. Lose is the opposite of find. A loser loses.

Loose is the opposite of tight. One may also set something loose, as in "He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword..."

Is it all that difficult?

[miniman]

Know it's knot.

[kambites]

To be fair, if you're not a native english speaker it's not remotely obvious which spelling would be pronounced which way.

To be spelled as they are pronounced, I guess they should really be something like:

loose - opposite of tight
looze - opposite of win

[john_r]

Only a loser would care.

[Rotary Madness]

your going to have a big problem with this sentance then, best go stand over their in the corner, were going to stay here

[Sisyphus]

Your fighting a lossed course their

[Puff Puff]

The one that baffled me the most was when a master at school said he was fed up with boys getting 'aloud' and 'allowed' confused. None of the chaps in my form did and we were supposed to be the thickos.

[FourWheelDrift]

Im getten feed op off this threds.

[isee]

kambites said:

To be fair, if you're not a native english speaker it's not remotely obvious which spelling would be pronounced which way.

To be spelled as they are pronounced, I guess they should really be something like:

loose - opposite of tight
looze - opposite of win

That's funny. I find that it is in fact native English speakrs who get confused with this the most. It's a pet hate of mine and the frustrating thig is that it does not matter what background you are from or what education you may have enjoyed, nobody seems to be immune from it..

[JRM]

It does amaze me the number of 'intelligent' people at work that spell it wrong (as well as the morons on here - oop sorry, no offence!)

[cpl_payne]

kambites said:

To be fair, if you're not a native english speaker it's not remotely obvious which spelling would be pronounced which way.

Not really - I'm not a native English speaker and I can tell the difference. For some reason it's the native speakers commiting the most atrocities such as "would of", "could of" etc.

[AlexKP]

Hammerwerfer said:

Of all the spelling mistakes one sees on the internet, the confusion between "loose" and "lose" has me baffled.

Lose is opposite of win. Lose is the opposite of find. A loser loses.

Loose is the opposite of tight. One may also set something loose, as in "He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword..."

Is it all that difficult?

Depends on if you are literate or not.

Innit.

[largerandrock]

Get over it Looooser

[V6]

Rotary Madness said:

your going to have a big problem with this sentance then, best go stand over their in the corner, were going to stay here

where

[Sisyphus]

JRM said:

It does amaze me the number of 'intelligent' people at work that spell it wrong (as well as the morons on here - oop sorry, no offence!)

Just in case you're one of those Americans, that don't recognise irony, mine were all deliberate.

[Sciroccology]

V6 said:

Rotary Madness said:

your going to have a big problem with this sentance then, best go stand over their in the corner, were going to stay here

where

We're, even.

[MaxAndRuby]

FourWheelDrift said:

Im getten feed op off this threds.

You just did that to annoy me, right?

[MaxAndRuby]

Sciroccology said:

V6 said:

Rotary Madness said:

your going to have a big problem with this sentance then, best go stand over their in the corner, were going to stay here

where

We're, even.

And it's 'sentence'

[Hammerwerfer]

or weir.

[crossle]

kambites said:

To be fair, if you're not a native english speaker it's not remotely obvious which spelling would be pronounced which way.

Hammerwerfer is not a native English speaker, he's from the colonies across the pond...

He's only just learned how to spell "colour" and "aluminium"!