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Today’s Peeve

April 02nd, 2004 | Category: looky

Can someone explain to me why it seems to be so difficult for people to spell the word “lose” correctly?

It follows the normal spelling rules of English- no one pronounces “moose” as “mooz”.

  • loose - “loos” - the opposite of “tight” or “tighten” if a verb. Rhymes with “moose”. The noun “looser” people have created is not a person who doesn’t win; if anything it would be a person who untightens things like bolts or jar lids or something.
  • lose - “looz” - the opposite of “win” or “find”. Sounds close to “muse.” This is NOT the same word! Note the different sound of the vowel and the last consonant.
  • loss - “lahss” - the thing created when you lose. If you are confusing this with “lose” then you just don’t speak English!

Okay I’m done now.

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