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Conspiracy theory, why can't Americans differentiate loose and lose?
It's they're poor education system that they have their. There need for an /s when their reading sarcasm shows they're lack of comprehension
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Because:
The words “lose” and “loose” have the same vowel sound (and for some reason the extra “o” changes /z/ to /s/).
There are no other words ending in -ose that have the /u/ sound
Many words ending in -oose exist that have an /u/ sound, including the very common word, “choose”, which has the same /uz/ sound that “lose” has at the end
I never get these spellings mixed up but I can absolutely understand why someone would.