Lose or loose, confusion over spelling

I don't think these people are dyslexic just uneducated. Probably never read a book.

I'm reading a William Boyd book and in the first chapter I've already had to look up 2 words!

No one minds a typo or slip up but it's very annoying to see so many people with such a poor standard of spelling.

I have just got a thread heading wrong.
I didn’t bother to preview 🥺

I don’t get confused with the examples here but I do get confused with discreet and discrete.

It might help to think that ‘lost’ has one ‘o’ as does ‘lose’

‘Loose’ has two ‘o’s making loose like a waistband.

‘Their’ has an ‘I’ in it and often refers to people, like I am.

Being dyslexic goodness nose how many words I spell incorrectly without realising. I must get right up the pedants' knowses every time I post.

LucyAnna5 - 😂

crazyH

Without being self-congratulatory - I never get confused with words - confused with other things for sure, but not with words😂

Did you mean foreshore? (Only joking!)

(Drums fingers / waits for someone to say you didn’t mean that….🤦‍♀️)

Without being self-congratulatory - I never get confused with words - confused with other things for sure, but not with words😂

I saw the best one today on my local Nextdoor. Jell ussy for jealousy. After 30minutes scrawling down Nextdoor, I almost forgot how to spell my name.

No confusion really. In the case of lose/loose , different words (and pronunciations)

Lose , dying when you re talking about loss or death. (Looz)
Loose means released, unrestricted or free - let loose the dogs of war, or I have no loose change. (Looss)
The context dictates which word is right.
However, when a person is talking about their own bereavement we just have to let it go because to point it out would be crass in the circumstances.
( Dieing simply doesn’t exist.)

If they’re (there/their) dyslexic they might see the long o in pronunciation of “lose” as being like loose, goose, booze, choose etc. ?