‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀
Read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead, but lead doesn’t rhyme with read and lead doesn’t rhyme with read.
It’s a lose/loose situation
They never did. Their spelling, meaning, and pronunciation are the same as they have always been.
Wait, if they swapped meanings and then swapped spellings then doesn’t that mean they’re the same as before?
The bigger problem is that lose should rhyme with pose or close. Loose is fine.
Don’t get me started on ough and ead.
The lead soldier kneaded dough in the bough brush while they read the book that they previously read while taking a furlough in the rough.
I read this and all I could think of was “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”
I would lohz my shit if we had to pronounce it that way.
Hoes drop their clothes.
Who the hell decided that close is pronounced the same as clothes?
They aren’t universally, just in certain dialects. I pronounce the “th” just like with “clothing.”
They sound pretty close to me. We can close this issue.
I don’t know that they sound that different, but I definitely “pronounce” them differently in that my tongue is in a different party of my mouth for both of them. When I say clothes, my tongue is near touching my front teeth, where as close is more just below that ridge behind my teeth, so farther back.
I’m from the center of the U.S. for reference.
I had half my jaw ripped open when I was 16 or so. So I guess I’m lucky to pronounce or enunciate anything correctly these days.
Southern Mississippi, if that means squat.
Yeah Mississippi will do that to you.
*purpoose
Loose rhymes with Goose
There’s a moose loose in the hoose.
English is idiosyncratic as hell. Didn’t someone famous call it “not a language but 3 languages in an overcoat.”
Adding to this specific instance is that even native speakers spell things wrong. They loose their keys, etc.
Loose rhymes with noose. I can’t think of a word that’s spelled and pronounced like lose so you have me there.
choose lose cruise booze
all rhyme lol
Words pronounced like lose? That’s easy. Close
Lose rhymes with clues, not close.
Edit: I just noticed your reply
No worries, it was just used to point out the premise of the post. Lose and close were the closest in spelling while also having the dumb pun included if you will. Bad jokes get downvoted or overlooked sometimes 🤷
english is a very silly language that’s evolved so you can do almost anything with it
it’s a risky strat but it seems to have worked
May as well combine words with the same pronunciation into one word and call it Simplified English (/s)
Honestly tho, this is one of the features of Simplified Chinese, which created the infamous “fuck vegetables” (干菜类).
It’s meant to say “dried vegetables” (乾菜類 in TC), but 乾→干. Meanwhile, there exists 幹→干 as well, which means “fuck”.
they are very different in my mind. perhaps because i first came across them in their respective contexts through reading.
even when speaking, to me, lose rhymes with booze and loose rhymes with goose.
this has never been a problem for me, personally.
It’s a miracle I know it, and having to teach someone how to read and spell was an eye opener for me trying to explain “this is like this except for this one word because… Reasons and sometimes there’s a variation like this because…reasons” so many times.
Usually the reason is either because some jerks intentionally changed certain spellings to look more French/Latin (“receipt” didn’t have a “p” originally, for example), or just because English is such a mongrel language with words taken from various other languages with different spelling and pronunciation rules.
Having to explain to my spanish speaking friends why an english word is spelled one way but pronounced another entirely different way gave me the same experience. So many times i have to tell them: “i don’t know english is just weird.”
They didn’t, except among the ignorant and autocorrect.
Lowe’s loose lows lose loss.
