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-up181arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up175arrow-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 · 8 hours agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRevan343linkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 hours agoIf we start now, we can probably switch the pronunciations of Aristotle and chipotle within a generation. Chip-ot-el
If we start now, we can probably switch the pronunciations of Aristotle and chipotle within a generation.
Chip-ot-el