As someone who has respond to *complaints about my (past) use of "loose" when meant "lose"... the comments came with a good hearted twisted application of my screen name of musick into moose... this in response to my spelling the AWAD member named "Whitman O'Neil" short name for himself (I believe) "WON" as "juan"... it all comes from being taught spelling thru phonetics, yet learning full well exceptions are littered all over that ground.

In the case of "lose", I was finally given a nemonic to remind me of the lost "o".

Why would one "o" be pronounced the same as two "o"'s and change the "s" to a "z" sound? Just use a "u". Ain't that what they're for? That's why we call them "ewez".

Not that I learned all the rules of phonetics, but possibly just the intent (...possibly not).