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

• BenM2023@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • ODuffer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah absolutely not silent. Unless perhaps you’re a cockney.

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  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m in the US and I pronounce it, I think a lot of people do? Maybe I just know a lot of snobs and “regular” Americans mush the word together but I don’t think so

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh well that’s easy then, it’s because you guys speak British, not English!

    Kidding aside, I lived in East Anglia for a few years as a kid and I don’t remember the British kids saying it that way either, but that was a really long time ago and my memory ain’t what it used to be! I think. I can’t remember how it used to be actually.

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    • BenM2023@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it’s because you guys speak British, not English!

      Fighting talk, sirrah! Fighting talk… But yes, I guess.

      British English has been described as three languages dressed up in a trenchcoat that go around mugging other languages in dark alleys and stealing the best bits…

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You seem like the sort of person that would pronounce the word often with a hard T, yet still pronounce the letter A as if it was an O.

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    • BenM2023@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You seem like the sort of person that would pronounce the word often with a hard T,

      Not at all. Used to make fun of people who did.

      yet still pronounce the letter A as if it was an O.

      No - there are two sounds for A, bath (short, as in cat) for tub of usually hot water and Bath (long, as in car) for the city famous for its hot water. Never heard it like O - no, wait… RP has an O sounding A doesn’t it? Lloyd Grossman was famous for his mangling of vowel sounds.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        en.wikipedia.org/…/American_and_British_English_p…

        Meanwhile, why do we pronounce cheese as cheeze?

        Who threw the Z sound in there?

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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