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.
[Diagram]

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.
[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

blubb: Couldn't the SSL (Secret Society of the Loosers) have an interest in the confusion, after all? Apparently, this very page is already a thorn in their flesh. Just see its mysteriously vanished pre-v13 history ...  (yes, there actually were v7-v8-v9-v10-)   ;-)


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