OK I’ve had a gin or 3 so am slightly emboldened for a rant.
If you have a dodgy phone signal you LOSE it.
If a nut unscrews it is LOOSE.
These words mean different things and are not interchangeable !
No, I do not read The Mail b4 sum wag asks…
errr, you sure it aint you who’s LOST it ?
A lot of people are mixing up lose and loose. In particular, a lot of people are writing loose when they really mean lose. Here are the definitions of the two words from my Penguin dictionary:
loose [lOOs] adj not fastened or pre-packed; not ■■■■■■■ or confined; able to move freely; not tight, not firmly fixed; not close-fitting; careless, inaccurate, vague; dissolute, immoral; not closely woven; flabby; (of bowels) inclined to diarrhoea; l. box stable or van in which an animal can move about; at a l. end uncertain what to do next; unoccupied ~ loose adv in a loose way; play fast and l. behave rashly or unscupulously ~ loose n release; on the l. free from restraint; on a spree; ~ loose v/t untie, undo; release from confinement or constraint, set free; detatch; fire (gun); shoot (arrow); (eccles) absolve.
lose (p/t and p/part lost) [lOOz] v/t and i no longer have; be deprived of by accident or misfortune; mislay, fail to find; fail to get or win; be too late for; be bereaved of; waste; be defeated or beaten; suffer loss, become worse off; fail to hear, see or understand; cause or allow to perish; (of clock or watch) go too slowly; (refl) miss the right path; become absorbed in; l. one’s head become flustered, panic; l. one’s temper grow angry; l. one’s way fail to find the right path; l. out (US) be defeated after a struggle.
Examples:
This knot is too loose.
Please do not lose my book.
I had better not lose that file.
Words are just words - so long as the people you say them to understand - what’s the problem?
Has TruckNet got a dictionary Corner? 
Evil8Beezle:
Has TruckNet got a dictionary Corner?
Doesn’t need one… It’s pedantry central 
Santa:
Words are just words - so long as the people you say them to understand - what’s the problem?
My point, 2 words meaning different things.
For instance if your previous Co folded would you put on a job application I lost my job because…or I loosed my job because ?
Any decent haulier would choose the former applicacation although I suspect a large “logistics” Co might favour the latter.
DaiDap:
Evil8Beezle:
Has TruckNet got a dictionary Corner?Doesn’t need one… It’s pedantry central [emoji14]
Pedant’s corner on the Simon Mayo show years ago ran for bloody weeks…
Is this really contentious ?
Evil8Beezle:
Has TruckNet got a dictionary Corner?
No, but it bloody well needs one!
Ambiguous post there Kev. So which side of the fence do you stand ( no sitting here)?
Munchkin:
Ambiguous post there Kev. So which side of the fence do you stand ( no sitting here)?
How is my post ambiguous?
Boils myp%ss when people write “breaks” when they clearly mean “brakes”,I wont even get started on Brakes.Well done O.P. this sort of thing needs not Kneads a good airing.
Anyone who writes this - "No, I do not read The Mail b4 sum wag asks…" has no business criticizing me for my spelling and grammar.
Santa:
Anyone who writes this - "No, I do not read The Mail b4 sum wag asks…" has no business criticizing me for my spelling and grammar.
I haven’t criticised your grammar Santa, have you been mentioned?
The Mail bit was entirely ironic.
Kev, apologies. I assumed sarcasm.
alamcculloch:
Boils myp%ss when people write “breaks” when they clearly mean “brakes”,I wont even get started on Brakes.Well done O.P. this sort of thing needs not Kneads a good airing.
Well, if you’re the resident grammar policeman why don’t you tell us what you think about people who can’t use apostrophes correctly? 
I lost my virginity to a loose woman.
I was in a stationary vehicle at the time after delivering some stationery.
Theories a) and b) for your consideration. Could it be in some part due to either a) predictive text anticipating what you are about to write, inserting what is most likely from your previous word usage, and as it is spelt correctly it does not flag it up as an error. A grammar correction programme would probably indicate such an error. Followed by a bit of laziness in not checking for errors or checking and reading what we thought we wrote. Or b) the beer and couldn’t give a t0ss theory?
I’m with munchkin, bad grammar makes my teeth itch, we’re all drivers but learn to spell for gawd’s sake.
Smoking affects pregnancy but smoking doesn’t effect pregnancy. Work that one out then.
There, there, their, they’re.
Too tutu to two .
Whether the weather.
Any fule kno’s that sum of the spelling on here is atroshi…atrochiu… shocking 
Seems to be a lot of smelling pistakes of late !!