ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 1 month ago

It'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 looking

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It'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 looking

ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 1 month ago

‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

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As a native English speaker, English is freaking weird like that.

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