Lose/loose

[Heather]

More and more I see people everywhere using "loose" when they mean "lose". Anyone else notice that?

LOOSE
luːs/
adjective

not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached.
"a loose tooth"
synonyms: not fixed in place, not secure, insecure, unsecured, unattached; More
detached, unfastened;
wobbly, rickety, unsteady, movable
"a loose floorboard"

"she wore her hair loose"
 (of a person or animal) not tied up or shut in.
"the bull was loose with cattle in the field"

(of a garment) not fitting tightly or closely.
"she slipped into a loose T-shirt"
synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting, easy-fitting, generously cut, slack, roomy, boyfriend; More


LOSE

luːz/
verb
verb: lose; 3rd person present: loses; past tense: lost; past participle: lost; gerund or present participle: losing

be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something).
"I've lost my appetite"
synonyms: be deprived of, suffer the loss of, no longer have, stop having
"he's lost a lot of blood but his life is not in danger"


Sorry Matt, had to do it.


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[Neville Briggs]

I see examples of people using "lose" when they mean "loose". Could be a typo

If things are loose
they're easy lost.
To lose the loose
may be small loss,
but any loss
if even losing loose things
is loosely;
still a loss.

[Maureen K Clifford]

you've lost me Just gammin' - I see it all the time and it annoys the crap out of me but I also get anal about draws and drawers on garage sales

[David Campbell]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/ ... 54291.html

[Bob Pacey]

Please explain ?


"the bull was loose with cattle in the field"


A decadent Bull ?


Bob

[alongtimegone]

English to be the Official Language (Author unknown)

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one fewer letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f".. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

Wozzer

[Bob Pacey]

Wazza that is how Bill types all the time

[Terry]

Now that really worries me Matt; please let me know when you start judging mate.
Because I suspect I'm a serial offender, and this is probably just one of my lesser sins.

Terry

[Heather]

None of us are past learning and it's nothing to do with judging (of poetry I presume).

Matt your misspellings are quaint - allot !

Heather

[Heather]

Is that a "working with poets" check? Can't see that ever getting past the discussion paper frankly.