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'Choose' rhymes with 'lose'? I mean c'mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

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[-] corvett@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Loose rhymes with Goose

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Only online and since I hear the words I read it is really fucking annoying.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 months 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.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

both come from the same root

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

I mean yeah 'loose' could probably be pronounced like 'choose' and it would still make sense, but it absolutely wouldnt make sense for 'lose' to be pronounced like 'moose' or 'goose'. Im not sure what you even mean when you say they switched meanings either because thats just false.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

The audience can't seem to differentiate commas from; well, every other punctuating mark. What are you hoping to achieve, here?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 7 months ago

It's been years since I've seen people misspelling lose as loose, but I do remember when it was pretty common to see.

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