58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 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-square88fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1121arrow-down1message-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 · 15 hours agomessage-square88fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAsidonhopo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 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