Since this thread is all over the place anyway, I don't mean to pick on you, but it seems that I see this misspelling more and more lately. It's beginning to get my water heated (trying to stay on topic), but the correct spelling is L-O-S-E.
It really wouldn't bother me so much if I didn't notice it happening more and more. I fear it will be added to the definition in Merriam-Webster's dictionary in the near future.
/also, I'm sure I made some grammatical mistake somewhere in this post due to
Muphry's Law