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Loose rhymes with noose. I can't think of a word that's spelled and pronounced like lose so you have me there.
choose lose cruise booze
all rhyme lol
Words pronounced like lose? That's easy. Close
Close is way closer to clothes than it is to lose. And close is more like gross.
I was joking, close would only be pronounced similar to lose if it were spelled clues.
both come from the same root
english is a very silly language that's evolved so you can do almost anything with it
it's a risky strat but it seems to have worked
Are you familiar with “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité?
Deep breath:
I believe the generally accepted scientific term for the English language is "clusterfuck".
*kloostaphux
May as well combine words with the same pronunciation into one word and call it Simplified English (/s)
Honestly tho, this is one of the features of Simplified Chinese, which created the infamous "fuck vegetables" (干菜类).
It's meant to say "dried vegetables" (乾菜類 in TC), but 乾→干. Meanwhile, there exists 幹→干 as well, which means "fuck".
So this is where I find cucumber?
Fuck as in curse or as an action?
Used in this context? Action. But it can mean both.
Even better :D
It's a miracle I know it, and having to teach someone how to read and spell was an eye opener for me trying to explain "this is like this except for this one word because... Reasons and sometimes there's a variation like this because...reasons" so many times.
Mostly the "reasons" just boil down to etymology. We spell things the way the languages we stole them from spelled them.
Having to explain to my spanish speaking friends why an english word is spelled one way but pronounced another entirely different way gave me the same experience. So many times i have to tell them: “i don’t know english is just weird.”
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"
The bigger problem is that lose should rhyme with pose or close. Loose is fine.
Don't get me started on ough and ead.
The lead soldier kneaded dough in the bough brush while they read the book that they previously read while taking a furlough in the rough.
How can the soldier knead anything if they're made of lead?
I barely started reading and i hate this already.
Didn’t even have to click. Great poem
I read this and all I could think of was "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
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they are very different in my mind. perhaps because i first came across them in their respective contexts through reading.
even when speaking, to me, lose rhymes with booze and loose rhymes with goose.
this has never been a problem for me, personally.
And here's me, another non-native speaker, just learning that booze doesn't rhyme with goose.
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They didn't, except among the ignorant and autocorrect.
There's ~~too~~ ~~to~~ two different ways to pronounce and spell many words.
Fuck, that's three!
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What about the words that are only different in tone.
Content and content
It is read like lead, not read like lead.
Or lede for that matter
If we start now, we can probably switch the pronunciations of Aristotle and chipotle within a generation.
Chip-ot-el
Trust me, it is equally frustrating for most Americans...or almost, anyway.
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