Grammar Pet Peeve of the Day It drives me nuts that so often, I see people misuse lose and loose. Loose is when your clothes don't fit. They are loose. Lose is when you don't win a game. It messes with my head, because the pronunciation is different. I will read loosing or loose as a soft s, or loos-ing, but lose has a z sound. So I'm reading along, come across the misspelled word, it sounds wrong in my head, and I wonder, how come people don't know the difference? Bah. |