‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀
english is a very silly language that’s evolved so you can do almost anything with it
it’s a risky strat but it seems to have worked
May as well combine words with the same pronunciation into one word and call it Simplified English (/s)
Honestly tho, this is one of the features of Simplified Chinese, which created the infamous “fuck vegetables” (干菜类).
It’s meant to say “dried vegetables” (乾菜類 in TC), but 乾→干. Meanwhile, there exists 幹→干 as well, which means “fuck”.
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.
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”
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.
Or lede for that matter
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.
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.
Looser wearing lose clothing?
🤔
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Only online and since I hear the words I read it is really fucking annoying.
