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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absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Agreed, I am teaching my second son to read.

I am having the same conversations as when I taught my first to read.

“ok, this word is a ‘sight word’ because it doesn’t make the sounds you expect. It says won, but it looks like it says on-e”

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