58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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 · 2 months agomessage-square66fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoRight, and the poem is written in such a way that implies they do not.
But they do rhyme…
Right, and the poem is written in such a way that implies they do not.