You're making a point that I'm not ("someone is correcting someone else's spelling therefore ill dig through every single word to find a mistake they make and c

You're making a point that I'm not ("someone is correcting someone else's spelling therefore ill dig through every single word to find a mistake they make and call them a hypocrite"). I just said above I don't correct people's grammar because a) it doesn't matter and b) I make mistakes all the time. This on the other hand is if you see someone making the mistake (2 * 2 = 6). Even the most basic/out-of-the-math-loop person should not make this mistake. Or at the very least, it shouldn't be a common mistake made 1 out of ~25 times These are 2 very common words, that sounds completely different, and there's nothing tricky about them. That's why it makes no sense to me, and each time I see it it's maddening. It's one thing to mess up something like....... "if I was____" (improper subjunctive mood), I see that mistake all the time, but who cares because how is anyone going to remember that? But lose and loose is just so fundamental to know the difference between when to use hard/soft "S" when preceeded by "oo". Furthermore, how many words are there that precede a soft "s" that only has one "o"... ? I can't think of any other than "dose".... but there are tons that fit the bill otherwise: hose, lose, nose, pose, rose..............