58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours 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-up197arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up189arrow-down1message-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 · 9 hours agomessage-square66fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·8 hours agoObviously 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.
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.