Why does everyone else spell it “loosing”.
IT PISSES ME OFF!!!
THERE IS ONLY ONE “o”. OK ??? JUST ONE !!!
It appears that you are, and the only one who can type in all caps.
Loosen up huh? ya loser 
No… really. Is just an extra o. Just point your finger chant “naya naya naya naya na I’m smarter than You–oo”
and leave it be.
Maybe that will help you cope with the extra O.
Osip
I’ve noticed it too. i’m not the best speller in the world. Not even close. But mixing up words is a bit much. My personal pet peeve is when someone mixes up there, their, ** and ** they’re, as well as your and you’re.
Oh yeah, and excessive use of exclamation marks. I don’t use them much, but I’d still hate to have to ration them because of an “!” shortage. 
I have not noticed the problem of which you shout. Maybe you just associate with a larger-than-average number of lossers. 
Seriously, I see certain misspellings that seem to be popularly epidemic sometimes, and not at others. For example, I have seen many, many people type realise instead of realize lately. So many, in fact, that I find myself double checking dictionaries even though I know it’s a misspelling.
Actually…
If you picked up an Australian or English dictionary, you would it was you who was spelling it wrong.
Thanks for the lesson. :rolleyes:
Now quit yelling.
Is it just me, or does that look a grammar problem?
Osip
While we’re complaining, how about itsand ** it’s**?
Or those signs in the grocery store where people avoid the tomatoes vs. tomatos conundrum by spelling it tomato’s - that way, one is 100% wrong all the time, rather than that annoying 50/50 guess.
Oh pish posh, MH, look, they are doing it right too…Im going to buy you a dictionary
2loose verb loosed loos•ing (13c)
verb transitive
1 a : to let loose : release
b : to free from restraint
2 : to make loose : untie <loose a knot>
3 : to cast loose : detach
4 : to let fly : discharge
5 : to make less rigid, tight, or strict : relax
verb intransitive
: to let fly a missile (as an arrow) : fire
(C)1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. All rights reserved.
I’ve been semi-guilty of this spelling faux-pas. More of the “their-they’re-there variety”. But bear with me and I’ll explain.
Generally speaking, when I see a thread to which I wish to respond, I click the respond button and just start whapping away at the keys. All the while I’m saying in my head what I’m typing. And yes I know the difference between all the words, but sometimes my fingers get ahead of me. I’ve also been guilty of screwing up my possesives (missing or adding unnecessary apostrophies) or mix-matching verbs and objects (most often by missing out on making the object plural). And while I am generally a pretty good speller, I throw a few juicy typos in for good measure.
I do take the time to proof-read my post, but usually it’s just a quick once over. Sometimes you just want to get that post out there, damn the consequences.
I don’t let it get the best of me. It’s not like I’m writing a term paper, fer Chrissakes. I’m not getting graded on this shit. If someone wants to then post and tell me I’m a moron because I put “I” before “E” after a “C”, eh, let them blow hot air. I’m secure enough in my intelligence not to get freaked out about it. As for this morning - I’m bored, this is the first thread
I found and I just felt like rambling. You’re mission, should you choose to accept it: find all the spelling errors in my post, inform me of them, and then marvel at my appathy.
handy:
Pish posh? Easy does it, you’ll pop a vein ranting like that.
The ‘looser’ thing bugs me too, but I’m a chronic offender on the you’re/your and it’s/its, so I’ll keep my mouth shut …
Know what pisses me off? Goddamn DOCTOR SEUSS, of all people, did it, too! One of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century!
No fooling. Go get your old copy (or your kid’s new copy) of I HAD TROUBLE IN GETTING TO SOLLA SOLLEW. Great book, right? 1965.
Now jump to about 2/3 of the way through the story. The scene where the protagonist has been impressed into military duty by General Genghis Kahn Schmitz (we’ll skip commentary on Seuss’s spelling of “Kahn.” Let’s assume he’s doing Yiddish schtick).
Okay, so the army is marching on into Pompelmoose Pass, to destroy the Perilous Poozer. Got it? And they go in, and they’re immediately surrounded, and it turns out that “There was more than one Poozer in Pompelmoose Pass!” Okay?
So then we’re treated to these couplets from the General:
“And Genghis Kahn Schmitz shouted out to his men
‘This happens in war every now and again.
Some times you are winners. Some times you are loosers {sic}.
We never can win against so many Poozers…’”
Man, this toasts my ass.
So don’t leave me hanging, Ike. What was the result at Pompelmoose Pass? Did they loose to the Poozers?
I think the double o you often see just happens to be one of the more common typos; I suspect that in almost all occurences, the generating poster does know how to spell the word.
I casn spell losing! See, look! Grrr. Loosen up, man.
“its” and “it’s” tend to piss me off as well.
But the worst: people who write “definAtely.” I definitely want to kill them all slowly and painfully.
Oh thats nothing. I can’t stand people who write ‘alot’…
Its supposed to be ‘a lot’ although I assume either form is acceptable according to my Harvard educated friend, Tim.
Current pet peeve: “decent” as “descent.”
You do of course realize that if enough people spell it looses, then it’s a correct form, don’t you?