My latest column is up at Project Simplify…
The Not-So-Simple Life: The Liberating Loosening of Losing Loose Ends
I need to address something right off the bat, because it’ll be bugging me this whole time if we don’t talk it over.
I’m something of a word nerd. A word nerd, a spelling aficionado, and an editor. And in this modern age, my fellow word nerd brethren and I (if I can speak for us all) are increasingly concerned about the ongoing decline of written English language usage. On their behalf, please allow me to briefly tilt at one small windmill:
While “loosing” is technically a word, it’s almost definitely not the word you mean. You mean “losing”. I totally get why you might be thinking it’s “loosing”, but it’s not. That sounds like “loose-ing”, and if you say that out loud, you’ll agree with me that it’s not what you meant. You meant “losing”, which sounds like “looz-ing”. 
So no more “loosing”. Alright? Alright.
Now that we’ve clarified that, let’s talk about the liberating loosening of losing loose ends.
Loosely speaking, losing loose ends can really lighten your load, and lead to a rather lovely liberating loosening. If you’re feeling lost in life, it may be that you’re losing yourself in loose ends, and what you really need to be doing is losing those loose ends, so you can loosen up.
Did I lose you?
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Read the rest at Project Simplify.
(photo credit: Loose Ends by Quinn Dombrowski)
2 Comments until now
And the two words that sound too much like “to” are misused too often to ignore,too. It is usually “too” that isn’t used when it should be. But “too much” has two many “o”s to be mistaken for to. It also has two “O”s, too.
I actually have a little more tolerance for people mixing up words with other common words. At least all three “tu”s are in daily usage. “Loosing” is strictly reserved for pretentious novelists, and maybe horse stories.
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