I don't want to be a spelling and grammar nazi, but this mistake is being made consistently upstream so I thought I'd point it out: "Loose" is the opposite of "tight". The opposite of "win" (which I'm pretty sure is the word you meant to use) is "lose" with one "o".
I notice people using "loose" when they mean "lose" probably twice a day on average, but I get unusually distracted by spelling mistakes. I don't think I've ever seen the reverse mistake.
It's losing. For some reason, I see the "loosing" misspelling more often now than a few years ago. It seems to be a sort of orthographical meme that's spreading.
I'm great with then than, it's its, even effect affect. But Loose vs Lose I constantly get wrong. Something about a single/double o changing the s to a z sound just isn't working for me.
They should have spelled it looze instead :(
Edit: Decided to check the etymology to see who came up with that spelling. Apparently lose is related to lost and loss, maybe that will help me remember. I hope so.
Not to be a dick, but it's "losing", not "loosing". This is the most incorrectly spelt word on the Internet and it makes me irrationally irate. If English is not your native language then I apologise for my pedantic outburst.
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