58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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-square66fedilinkarrow-up1193file-text
arrow-up1193message-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 · 1 month agomessage-square66fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI can see why he’d have trouble with those two, because Spanish doesn’t have the English “z” sound. They’ll both sound the same using Spanish pronunciation .
I can see why he’d have trouble with those two, because Spanish doesn’t have the English “z” sound. They’ll both sound the same using Spanish pronunciation .