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

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Obviously the plural of foot is feet, so the plural of book should be beek.

Or one sheep should be a shoop.

There’s also the English Vowel Shift. Which means words either side of it are inconsistent.

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