Drop Dit Danglish: Spelling "Lose" with two "o"s

Danish speakers often misspell English words by copying Danish patterns. "Lose" has one o, "loose" has two. "See" needs two e's in English, not one like Danish "se."
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Spelling lose with a double O. In English, words like balloon and choose and moose, the oo in the middle is spelled with 2 O's. So an intelligent Dane might then assume that the translation of at tabe would be to lose. Double O. In the jungle that is English spelling, that intelligent Dane would be wrong. You lose a case, one O, or lose an I, one O. You might lose weight, one O, and then find that your trousers are loose, 2 O's. Lose has one O. Loose has 2. And don't confuse lose with drop. You can only drop something if it physically falls to the ground. You lose money in the stock market, but you drop coins all over the floor. Annoyingly, the vowel distribution is the exact opposite for the English word see. It has 2 E's, yet Danes tend to spell it with one, just like the Danish se. See in English has 2 E's.
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