Loose v. lose


You have no excuse for this. Loose means unfettered, free, not tied down, generous of space and impure of sexual morals. Lose is what I do with my temper when I see loose misused. 

Well, perhaps  you do  have some sort of excuse for the mistake. We write “choose” but, unaccountably, it rhymes with “lose” rather than the word it resembles, “loose”. 

I didn’t invent English  spelling rules and pronunciation. They are the unfortunate  result of a bunch of violent Frenchmen (Normans) with funny accents  invading a country where the natives spoke a form of simplified German (Anglo-Saxon). Nothing to do with me.

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