‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

  • yeehaw
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    5 hours ago

    It’s a miracle I know it, and having to teach someone how to read and spell was an eye opener for me trying to explain “this is like this except for this one word because… Reasons and sometimes there’s a variation like this because…reasons” so many times.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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      3 hours ago

      Agreed, I am teaching my second son to read.

      I am having the same conversations as when I taught my first to read.

      “ok, this word is a ‘sight word’ because it doesn’t make the sounds you expect. It says won, but it looks like it says on-e”