[Closed] You keep using that word...

Thanks, Cougar, absolutely drives me nuts!
I blame the parents, the education system, Facebook... 😉

There is no such word as "loosing" (or if there is, it's not in any sort of common usage that I'm aware of).

That would be the gerund of the verb "loose", as in "loosing off a gun". Not a common usage, I'll grant you, and nothing to do with "losing your trousers", but still a real word.

[i]There is no such word as "loosing" [/i]

Only loosers use that word.

My mum used to live in Loose, just outside of Maidstone. That made her a Loose woman

I think someone from these parts explained it reasonably well not so long go. The theory was the way the two words are spoken, though not the "error" word itself - lose is more drawn out than loose when spoken.

The best explanation yet, IMO.

And Rambo.
As he's loosing off a few rounds!

That would be the gerund of the verb "loose", as in "loosing off a gun".

More like loosing an arrow. Which makes sense - you are letting it loose.

some managers at work say 'pross-cess' instead of process. they must have heard an american director say it in a meeting once.

oh, and levver-ridge instead of leverage. argh etc.

edit add: i know these are supposedly the same word/meaning, but it still annoys me

edit again add: there is someone who is nearly forty, appears to be intelligent and educated, and he actually says brought when he means bought.

There is no such word as "loosing"

You loose arrows with a bow, so could definitely be said to be 'loosing arrows'. (Confusingly, you might also 'lose' some of them and so be simultaneously loosing and losing arrows - which is where the confusion originates I imagine.)

If you're planning on pedantry, you could at least learn to spell "aide memoire" properly.

Ewer well come.

While I appreciate your concern over the degradation of the English language. I'm afraid it's probably language evolution. In short, you'd better start using these words or know 1 will no wat ur on abt.

You loose arrows with a bow, so could definitely be said to be 'loosing arrows'.

A very good point and one which, as a lapsed field archer, I should have thought of. One does not 'fire' a bow, one 'looses' it. Though I did say 'not in common usage' and that is a pretty specific application.

However,

If you're planning on pedantry, you could at least learn to spell "aide memoire" properly.

Guilty as charged. Muphry again.

its rediculous!

Definately!

[i] One does not 'fire' a bow, one 'looses' it.[/i]

I believe one "shoots" a bow, but "looses" an arrow.

I pacifically asked people to stop using that word

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ahhh be quiet thee pedants, back to hell scurrrvyyy.

your welcome.

"aide-mémoire" has both a hyphen and an accent in my English dictionary, Flash.

Surely there is such a word as losing?

If, for example, you had a hole in your pocket through which your loose (ahem) change was falling, it could be said that you were losing money through that hole i.e. you'd be using the whatever-the-word-is-for-an-ongoing-action tense of the verb 'to lose'.

Oh, hang on, you're problem is with the spelling.

As you were.

Indeed it does, was posting from a tablet. Mea culpa.
Foisted on my own Petrarch.

May I also add the use of the sounds "pacifically" and "acrosst" for specifically and across.
Also, "would of" is another annoyance.

I blame the parents, the education system, Facebook...

I blame people for not thinking about what their* saying.

I pacifically asked people to stop using that word

I saw an instruction written for an audio engineer in which the word 'pacifically' had been written in the place of 'specifically'. One would expect something of a eureka moment when they actually scribed it; but, perhaps not.

*deliberate

If you are lapping slower than someone else in a race, you are losing time.

Or they're gaining it.

Wait... what?

Confusingly, you might also 'lose' some of them and so be simultaneously loosing and losing arrows

While the waiter faffs about preparing your bill, in that moment do you not become the waiter?

Deeeeeep

You loose arrows with a bow, ... - which is where the confusion originates I imagine.)

Unless this is Sherwood Forest, and a large percentage of the population are merry men, I'm thinking it has little to do with archery...
😀

Can someone explain the significance of Jamie's squid, please?

Squid? I thought it was the defeated baddy from R-type.

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Can someone explain the significance of Jamie's squid, please?

A very good point and one which, as a lapsed field archer, I should have thought of.

Finishing a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put!

Definately!

This is one I think will become formalised in our language fairly soon. Notwithstanding the obvious loss of the original's logical inevitbility.

it's nearly as annoying as those folk who insist on putting their smilies the wrong way round.

it's nearly as annoying as those folk who insist on putting their smilies the wrong way round.

They're not the wrong way round. They're left-handed.

"Should of" is the one that tends to squeeze my nipples quite firmly.

Can someone explain the significance of Jamie's squid, please?

is disappointed by jamies non dancing gif-squid 😉

is disappointed by jamies non dancing gif-squid

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I believe one "shoots" a bow, but "looses" an arrow.