Lose Vs Loose

   

Lose

[Diagram]

Black will lose the game


Loose

[Diagram]

Ogeima, a loose connection


- TakeNGive (sorry, my grandmother was pedantic about English)


unkx80: I find it very interesting, and I wonder why, in both rec.games.go and Sensei's Library, I often see people spell "loose" when they mean "lose"? :-)

Probably because of Ignorance and Apathy -- Morten
Or because of "choose" and "chose". English is phonetically very inconsistent. -- Dieter


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