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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh? I have lived in every corner and the middle of the United States and I have never heard anyone pronounce the TH in clothes no matter the accent. It always sounds like close as in to close the door.

      Unless you are thinking of cloths, as in a pile of wash cloths.

      English kinda sucks sometimes.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m American and I’ve never heard a single person ever pronounce it “close”. Listen closely and you’ll hear that the word sounds longer. That’s the pronunciation. It’s not a hard “thuh”. It’s a soft “ths”. Say the word “cloths” but use a long “o” sound rather than “awh”.

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      • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is just wrong. Im canadian but think about how you would pronounce the word ‘clothe’ as in 'he can barely clothe himself" and then add an s sound. Although it is more of a ‘z’ sound abd can blend with the ‘th’ a little bit, the ‘th’ is definitely pronounced clo-th-z.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure where you’re from, but the th is indeed silent in my area regarding the word ‘clothes’. I’ve never heard it pronounced any different than ‘close’.

      Now if it’s said as ‘clothing’, the th is indeed pronounced. But not for ‘clothes’. And I’ve worked at a clothing store before.

      You might be thinking of the word ‘cloths’, which indeed does pronounce the th.

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      • BenM2023@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not sure where you’re from, but the th is indeed silent in my area regarding the word ‘clothes’. I’ve never heard it pronounced any different than ‘close’.

        I’m not sure where you’re from, the th in is always pronounced in my area regarding the word ‘clothes’. I’ve never heard it pronounced the same as ‘close’

        I will say that people got called out for pronouncing it the same as the spice ‘cloves’.

        FWIW My area = rural southern UK.

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So on laundry day you put away your clo_s_ing? The rest of us have clo_th_ing.

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I pronounce the th sometimes, but not always, depends how fast I’m talking

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  • Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Close isn’t always pronounced the same?!

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sit close to me vs close the door

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      • Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ooh wow you’re right.

        Close to me is “closs”

        Close the door is “cloz”

        I never noticed

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  • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bingo.

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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