<Rant> Lose the extraneous 'o', please!

[satchel]

I'm loathe to post this knowing I'll be flamed as a grammar nazi but why do so many people misspell the verb lose with two 'o's?? Loose is an adjective that means 'not tight'. Cows get loose, there are loose women, your pants can be loose. Loose can be a verb as in 'loose an arrow'(release it) but then you lose it in the weeds. You lose money, you lose power or lose voltage. When you lose, you don't win. When you snooze, you lose.
I could of course go on about there/their/they're, your/you're, etc.
I konw yuor pniot slitl gtes asrcos but try to get it rghit, pelsae.

Our Crazy English Language

[Ehetleos]

Same with the metal aluminium. It is aluminium, not aluminum!
The list can go on and on and on for ever!

[satchel]

You're correct. In our defense the American Chemical Society adopted 'aluminum' in 1925.
It was only 1990 that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially standardised on aluminium.

why two spellings