58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoIt's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was lookingmessage-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1112arrow-down1message-squareIt's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoDon’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.
minus-squarexigoi@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agohttp://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoI read this and all I could think of was “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”
minus-squaremoistclump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agohttps://youtu.be/0hGaSQyygRQ?si=chuCUpT-xXMXA18F
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.
http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
I read this and all I could think of was “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”
https://youtu.be/0hGaSQyygRQ?si=chuCUpT-xXMXA18F