‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀
*purpoose
*perpus
Trust me, it is equally frustrating for most Americans…or almost, anyway.
Okay TIL that these aren’t pronounced the same.
english is a very silly language that’s evolved so you can do almost anything with it
it’s a risky strat but it seems to have worked
They didn’t, except among the ignorant and autocorrect.
Lose lips think chips
There’s
toototwo different ways to pronounce and spell many words.Fuck, that’s three!
Steady up over
theirthey’rethere.Don’t phuck with my head, I’m two drunk!
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.
English is idiosyncratic as hell. Didn’t someone famous call it “not a language but 3 languages in an overcoat.”
Adding to this specific instance is that even native speakers spell things wrong. They loose their keys, etc.
Loose rhymes with Goose
There’s a moose loose in the hoose.
Wait, if they swapped meanings and then swapped spellings then doesn’t that mean they’re the same as before?
Grrr! English strikes again!
It’s a lose/loose situation
Read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead, but lead doesn’t rhyme with read and lead doesn’t rhyme with read.
It’s been years since I’ve seen people misspelling lose as loose, but I do remember when it was pretty common to see.
I see it multiple times daily. Whats your secret?
Probably that the mistake is so common that OP doesn’t even notice it anymore.
Yeah it should be looz / loose
they are very different in my mind. perhaps because i first came across them in their respective contexts through reading.
even when speaking, to me, lose rhymes with booze and loose rhymes with goose.
this has never been a problem for me, personally.
And here’s me, another non-native speaker, just learning that booze doesn’t rhyme with goose.
oh, no, no, no! booze and a goose should never go together!
So did you think “goose” was pronounced like “choose?” Understandable.
