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  • PSA: "loose" is the opposite of "tight"
  • GrahamS
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    Whereas “lose” is the opposite of “gain” / “win” / “find”.

    Examples:

    “The bolt was loose.”

    “If I lose any more weight then my trousers will be too loose.”

    “You are a loser.”

    http://www.chambers.co.uk/search.php?query=lose&title=21st
    http://www.chambers.co.uk/search.php?query=loose&title=21st

    That is all. 😀

    _tom_
    Free Member

    😆

    GrahamS
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    Coincidence I’m sure 😀

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    Junkyard
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    I am at a loose to understand WTF this is about

    Gotama
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    Good pedant post bar the incorrect use of speech marks plus other punctuation errors in the first line. 😀

    GrahamS
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    Good pedant post bar the incorrect use of speech marks plus other punctuation errors in the first line.

    Good retort, bar the lack of punctuation to separate your clauses. 😉

    ojom
    Free Member

    Some people have really loosed the sense of humour on this.

    Del
    Full Member

    ‘cohered’ does not mean ‘coerced’.
    ‘muted’ does not mean ‘mooted’.
    🙂

    Gotama
    Free Member

    Doh 😡

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    ‘muted’ does not mean ‘mooted’.

    I was keeping quiet on that one…

    seba560
    Free Member

    Good retort, bar the lack of punctuation to separate your clauses.

    I blame Thatcher for trying to make us a clauseless society.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Are we really? Who the hell’s gonna deliver all the Christmas presents?

    johnnystorm
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    Your so right. I would of mentioned it if you hadn’t.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    U pendantic looser.

    user-removed
    Free Member

    As a none-pedant, this is uninteresting.

    mrblobby
    Free Member

    Are you sure he’s not trying to loose his belly fat? He may be wanting to improve his truffle shuffle but his tight belly fat is preventing perfection.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    I wasn’t really intending to pick on richieokeefe1 by the way. (Though that thread is full of people “loosing” weight)

    A quick forum search shows this is a regular problem:

    If you store anything in the ‘cloud’ i.e Flickr, Picasa, Dropbox, you name it, be prepared to loose access to them at some point.. (m1kea)

    You can kinda loose alittle bit of love for the bike bit by bit. (hora)

    3. NONE i would kill myslef/loose license.. (Sui)

    You won’t loose your NCB as long as the other party is pays out, (maccruiskeen)

    … Exactly as per above. If you play by PayPals (fairly reasonable)rules you have little to loose. (plyphon)

    As other have said, try not to loose the simplicity though (blurty)

    or should I just accept that we’ll loose everything? (JEngledow)

    unless its broke of course and you loose the fee and have not got it fixed (trail_rat)

    somehow managed to loose my wallet the way there (kimbers)

    etc etc etc

    Your awl stoopid! 😆

    kayak23
    Full Member

    Hallelujah and praise be for your courage in speaking out. This is a constant annoyance to me but I prefer to deal with it by storing pent up rage. It’s how I roll. 😀

    Loose trousers
    Lose the game

    geoffj
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    Good advise that!

    jekkyl
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    Northwind
    Full Member

    I do “definetely” a lot. Or should I say

    MrSparkle
    Full Member

    And another thing – when did ‘thankyou’ become one word??? Ggggnnnnn!

    slackalice
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    Sticky spacebar. There you go.

    Pook
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    Mr sparkle; it’s going that way.

    Thank you.

    Thank-you.

    Thankyou.

    I personnally like ‘thank-you’. It has a certain finesse.

    ads678
    Full Member

    It really annoys me when people put “then” instead of “than” but maybe I just didn’t go to that lesson. Which is very possible.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Sticky spacebar.

    less of that about since the Friday Kylie’s were abandoned.

    RamseyNeil
    Free Member

    Agree with the OP . Also why do people write and say ” hence why ” .
    The word hence means that is why .

    Pook
    Full Member

    “myriad of”

    Technically it’s acceptable, but the ‘of’ is still superfluous.

    RamseyNeil
    Free Member

    “Pin number” P.I.N. Personal Identification Number .

    Sandwich
    Full Member

    Ramsey Neil add to that from whence.

    MrSalmon
    Free Member

    ‘Rediculous’ seems to be getting very common. At first I thought it was some ironic internetz meme but now I’m not so sure.

    konabunny
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    I thought the oppose of ‘tight’ was ‘generous’?

    Good retort, bar the lack of punctuation to separate your clauses.

    Good retort bar the superfluous comma.

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