Lose Vs Loose

Lose

• Rhymes with "booze" and "snooze".
• Would be spelled "luze" if English had any consistency -- but it's not, because it doesn't.
• Means "the opposite of win". Black is doomed to lose this game.

Black will lose the game  

Loose

• Rhymes with "noose" and "goose"
• Means "the opposite of tight". Ogeima is a kind of a loose connection between go stones.

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