It’s wild.

  • delitomatoes
    83·
    10 months ago

    Conspiracy theory, why can’t Americans differentiate loose and lose?

    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
      82·
      10 months ago

      It’s they’re poor education system that they have their. There need for an /s when their reading sarcasm shows they’re lack of comprehension

    • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Because:

      1. The words “lose” and “loose” have the same vowel sound (and for some reason the extra “o” changes /z/ to /s/).

      2. There are no other words ending in -ose that have the /u/ sound

      3. Many words ending in -oose exist that have an /u/ sound, including the very common word, “choose”, which has the same /uz/ sound that “lose” has at the end

      I never get these spellings mixed up but I can absolutely understand why someone would.