It's "Lose", God Damn It! (Except When It's "Loose")

This one's a big friggin' disease, especially online.  Lose and Loose.  I know people get mixed up with Lie and Lay or Sit and Set or Good and Well or Your and You're or To Two and Too or Their There and They're, but this particular one is really annoying because it's specifically about spelling.  People actually know the difference between Lose and Loose . . . when they hear it spoken.  In print, people turn moron.  They are not homophones and they do not mean similar things.  Loose is pronounced like the first syllable of Lucy and means not restrained or contained, or to release from restraint or containment.  You know, like in the phrase 'loose change'.  Lose is pronounced looz and means to misplace or stop having control of some kind or be defeated in a contest.

Really and truly, it's not a grammar Nazi thing.  People know the difference.  They just apparently can't spell second grade vocabulary words.  Calling someone a "Looser" is basically an accusation that they open the cages at the zoo or some shit.

Be am is are was were being been do does did has have had can could will would should may must might.  Suck it!