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It'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 looking (self.showerthoughts)
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'Choose' rhymes with 'lose'? I mean c'mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

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[–] over_clox 8 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

There's ~~too~~ ~~to~~ two different ways to pronounce and spell many words.

Fuck, that's three!

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Steady up over ~~their~~ ~~they're~~ there.

[–] over_clox 3 points 4 weeks ago

Don't phuck with my head, I'm two drunk!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Those three sound completely different to me, as far as how I’ve been pronouncing them goes. “Their” doesn’t have the extra lagging e sound (as in the e in err) in “there” where I curl my tongue upward at the end. “They’re” preserves the ey sound in “they”, just concatenated with an r as in err sound.

When I say, “They’re there,” people can make out what I’m saying, though as more people seem to tell me that these are just homophones, maybe they’ve just been relying on context.