58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoIt'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 lookingmessage-squaremessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up180file-text
arrow-up180message-squareIt'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 looking58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAsidonhopo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoI’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
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