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Originally Posted by alphageek31337
Loose (v): To untie, unbind, unrestrict or to make free. In this case, to no longer compel the reader to continue forward (as all good literature does)
Marichiko now owes me a dollar, for saving her reputation
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Ha, ha, ha, alphageek, what reputation? People have been jumping my case about my lousey spelling since I first started posting here. No dollar for you!
(Thanks for the attempt on my behalf, however, and it is a rather elegant thought - to loose one's readers upon the world. Yes, I like that - like a pack of WOLVES set free!)
From the Columbia Guide's discussion of the terms "loose" and "lose";
"The chief spelling problem is the inadvertent misspelling of lose as loose."
Yeppers, I meant "lose" - guilty as charged. My mistake and Wolf's sharp eye and sardonic comment serve to illustrate nicely the point I was attempting to make.