+620 Okay guys, seriously. Loosing = the process of making something loose, as in not tight. Losing = causing or suffering loss. You didn't loose your best friend, you LOST her; and you aren't loosing the ability to use grammar, you are LOSING it. amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i assume your not referring to my post? cuz i used the right one but you posted this 10 seconds after mine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It took me like 5 minutes to write this post, so I can assure you it is not referring to your post, as I didn't read any other posts as I wrote it. :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Uhm.... you can't loosing something... its loosening.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It can be loosing or loosening. Loosing is older and not used as much.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, okay, my bad (:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's fine :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No....loosing is not a word. Loosening is.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

loose: adjective, loos·er, loos·est, adverb, verb loosed, *loos·ing*. –adjective 1. free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end. 2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered: loose cats prowling around in alleyways at night. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/loosing yes. it is.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Allright. But i doubt anyone uses it...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Just because no one uses it anymore doesn't mean that it's not a word.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It would be so much simpler if English was spelled phonetically (foneticaly).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, but no language is spelled like that. Thank you, OP, for pointing out one of the other most-common grammar mistakes- next to your and you're.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In my country's language, most words are spelled phonetically. In fact, I can't seem to recall a word that is not spelled that way.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A lot of languages are spelled phonetically. Japanese, for example.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

THANK YOU!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think I've ever used the word "loosing". I use "loosening".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Like they said, "loosing" has fallen out of usage. Read old books; you'll see it there.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

OP, I love you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

d'awwwww I love you too :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

um. loosing isnt proper grammer either. loosening. hypocrite.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

oh my god. No matter how you say it, or how old the word is, the way I saw it being used was incorrect. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/loosing http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loosing http://www.google.com/dictionary?q=loose&langpair=en|en&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k59bTKHsMYGC8gbCiMj8AQ&ved=0CBYQmwMoAA Do yourself a favor and actually READ the whole page before you reply.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wow how many variations are we gonna have of this post. I'm LOOSING my mind :p haha jk

by Anonymous 13 years ago

LOOSENING MOTHER FUCKER.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

OLD ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER. However the hell you say it, my post is still correct.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Or: Loosing = NOT A WORD.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh my god, read the commets above! You're so ignorant.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I did read them....google corrects it to losing. Maybe it was a word in like the 1500's or something, but it's not a word now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It doesn't matter WHEN it was a word, it just matters that it WAS, and that the way I have seen it being used is INCORRECT.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was unaware that words can magically stop being words. Words can become obscure, but they will always be words.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Okay guys, seriously." is not a sentence; and, after a conjunction that follows a semicolon, you need a comma. So before you go grammar policing, check your own first.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am sorry that I missed that microscopic detail.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

^stop trying to a smart-ass.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Using loosing nowadays is the same as using doth. Languages evolve, if they didn't they would be dead. English evolved and loosing is no longer grammatically correct.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yay!!! Convention of grammar nazis!!!!! Quick, who knows where the period goes, inside or out of quotation marks? Fight it out between you guys while I go have a life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago