PSA: "loose" is the opposite of "tight"

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. 😀

😆

Coincidence I’m sure 😀

I am at a loose to understand WTF this is about

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

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. 😉

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

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

Doh 😡

‘muted’ does not mean ‘mooted’.

I was keeping quiet on that one…

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

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

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

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

U pendantic looser.

As a none-pedant, this is uninteresting.

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.

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! 😆

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

Good advise that!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

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

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

Sticky spacebar. There you go.

Mr sparkle; it’s going that way.

Thank you.

Thank-you.

Thankyou.

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

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.

Sticky spacebar.

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

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

“myriad of”

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

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

Ramsey Neil add to that from whence.

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

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.