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      Man the english language makes no sense.

      the sound in lose is the same sound as we are taught “oo” makes.

      Couldn’t a more straightforward language be chosen as the global one ffs

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        My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that “ghoti” was pronounced “fish”

        GH as in rouGH
        O as in wOmen
        TI as in raTIon

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          How do you pronounce women? When I put those sounds together it makes more of a fush or fosh than fish .

          Or do you say fish different than me?

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          That isn’t really consistent with English orthography.

          But you can write “pfysche”, and that would be consistent with English.

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        There’s also loose and they sound the same but mean different things.

        Loose is when your pants is too wide.

        Lose is when the pants were so wide that you lost them.

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          Lucy’s loose legwear lost latitude, leisurely lowering, leaving Lucy’s legs largely liberated. Lamentably, Lucy’s lost leggings landed listlessly, loitering lifelessly.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

          Man looking a thesaurus is fun Lol

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            Interesting, I didn’t know that. FYI, there’s the phonetic transcription that saves us from using other words to describe a pronunciation.

            luːz - lose

            luːs - loose

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          I think they sound different, loose ends with a curt “s” sound, while lose ends with a longer “z” sound.

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            Ooh, also its accent, this is not a thing couplet for me

            Discount, viscount, load and broad,
            Toward, to forward, to reward,

            Nor it’s immediate predecessor,

            Banquet is not nearly parquet,
            Which exactly rhymes with khaki.

            Parquet isn’t in my vocabulary, but doesn’t seem to rhyme with khaki in any common dialect either way.