“They are losing this game”…
why do most smart people i know spelling it this way…
“They are loosing this game.”
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Since this is not a comment on a Staff Report, I have moved it to the General Questions forum.
Many people are careless and rely on spellcheckers as a substitute for proofreading. “Loosing” doesn’t show up as an error since it is a word, albeit the wrong one for the context.
I would guess that it 's because of the irregular pronunciation of lose. Unlike rose, prose, nose, pose, those, hose, chose and close, lose is not pronounced with the long O. Instead, it rhymes with whose. This can rattle people’s brains loose and make them lose their minds.
From the context in which I see this error, I have to disagree with the OP:
No smart person spells it this way. 
Smart people do not depend wholly on spell checkers. They read what they have written before spell checking and sending.
Some people don’t even know there’s a difference.
No, I think the OP is saying that most “smart” people spell it “loosing.”
So I have to ask, “Smart in relation to whom?”
Smart in Kentucky maybe, I’ve never seen a smart person spell it “loose”, only idiots who can’t spell, which unfortunately encompasses a good 98% of America.
So, 98% of Americans are idiots who can’t spell? BTW, that’s one well put together sentence there NotSuitable.
And your point is…?