‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀
The bigger problem is that lose should rhyme with pose or close. Loose is fine.
Don’t get me started on ough and ead.
The lead soldier kneaded dough in the bough brush while they read the book that they previously read while taking a furlough in the rough.
I read this and all I could think of was “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”
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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!
What about the words that are only different in tone.
Content and content
It is read like lead, not read like lead.
They didn’t, except among the ignorant and autocorrect.
If we start now, we can probably switch the pronunciations of Aristotle and chipotle within a generation.
Chip-ot-el
Trust me, it is equally frustrating for most Americans…or almost, anyway.
Okay TIL that these aren’t pronounced the same.
Looser wearing lose clothing?
🤔
Obviously the plural of foot is feet, so the plural of book should be beek.
Or one sheep should be a shoop.
There’s also the English Vowel Shift. Which means words either side of it are inconsistent.
Only online and since I hear the words I read it is really fucking annoying.
