Comment on 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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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ncf.idallen.com/english.html

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Didn’t even have to click. Great poem

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I read this and all I could think of was “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”

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  • Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How can the soldier knead anything if he’s made of lead?

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    youtu.be/0hGaSQyygRQ?si=chuCUpT-xXMXA18F

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hoes drop their clothes.

  Who the hell decided that close is pronounced the same as clothes?

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  • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No one? They aren’t pronounced the same in any accent that I’m aware of.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re probably thinking of the pronunciation of close as in ‘close to you’

      I was thinking of the pronunciation of close as in ‘close the door’

      Which is pronounced the same as clothes.

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      • corvi@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Those still aren’t pronounced the same. The th in clothes isn’t silent.

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      • Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Close isn’t always pronounced the same?!

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      • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Bingo.

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Even the second one isn’t pronounced the same. Some accents drop the th sound in clothes which is why they can sound similar.

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They sound pretty close to me. We can close this issue.

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  • SandLight@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah Mississippi will do that to you.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They aren’t universally, just in certain dialects. I pronounce the “th” just like with “clothing.”

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would lohz my shit if we had to pronounce it that way.

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