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

over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Steady up over their they’re there.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t phuck with my head, I’m two drunk!

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  • Badland9085@lemm.ee [bot] ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those three sound completely different to me, as far as how I’ve been pronouncing them goes. “Their” doesn’t have the extra lagging e sound (as in the e in err) in “there” where I curl my tongue upward at the end. “They’re” preserves the ey sound in “they”, just concatenated with an r as in err sound.

    When I say, “They’re there,” people can make out what I’m saying, though as more people seem to tell me that these are just homophones, maybe they’ve just been relying on context.

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