“ Lose” and “loose”

This annoys me as well. I always taught student this:

Loose, two Os makes my waist band loose.
Lose, one O, it’s lost one.

Not perfect, but it did help.

I have to thank my Scottish education- I did not appreciate all the grammar lessons at the time but something has penetrated.

Daddima, I wish my excess weight was loose - that might make it easier to lose!

One of my current bugbears is the confusion of affect with effect. (I say "one of..." because, now I come to think of it, I do have quite a few. )

There and their also very common.

Drives me mad too!! Problem with spell checkers is that both lose and loose are spelt correctly, so it won't pick this up. You need to do grammar checks

I just thought that the poster had just held her finger down tooo long.?

I must annoy a lot of posters ?

Yes, ‘ loosing’ weight is a popular topic for discussion.

The unnecessary apostrophe in plurals is my own irritant, and it seems it is being regarded by many as acceptable if the word ends in a vowel, like ‘ sofa’s’ and’ pizza’s’.

And as for ‘ would of’ and ‘ had of’............

I agree Maw it drives me crazy.

Also the number of dinning tables for sale in my area is unbelievable!