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Actually, I don't think it is. I think you either need to say "loosed" or "am loosing" the ox. "Loose" doesn't work.[/quote]
Maybe youngmatthias meant

"I loose the ox from the cage every day at...

Actually, I don't think it is. I think you either need to say "loosed" or "am loosing" the ox. "Loose" doesn't work.

Well, in one sense at least. The other sense of the word might get you in quite a bit of trouble... :lol:

Do you really use "to loose" as a verb, DDT? To me those sentences seem more faimiliar if "loosed" was replaced with "released"[/quote]
I think it's fine. I wouldn't use it in an everyday dialogue,...

Not to mention the fact that they are prounounced COMPLETELY differently.[/quote]

No they are not that different.

Breathe has a long E vowel and voiced th
Breath has a short E vowel and...

You can loose a volley of arrows, for example -- or like someone said above, the sun looses fire, etc.

Don't think so...? The difference is basically like between лежать vs. положить. One is the thing doing it to itself, the other is having somone do it to it. E.G.: "We will rise up and we will say:...

Not to mention the fact that they are prounounced COMPLETELY differently.

What about "moran" though? :lol:

Haha. Pace Picante. Those were great commercials! :D

Yep. They do -- this is one of the most common mistakes by native-speakers that you will encounter. It's like it's/its, there/they're/their, two/to/too, etc. :wink:

a. Usually people say they "loose" something because they are ignorant.
b. There IS a verb "to loose" but it's not very common -- typically you can assume that someone using it is incorrectly...