It'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 looking - eviltoast

‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

  • HorseChandelier@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I would ask “why did you left ponders choose to change the pronunciation to zee?” - though given many USAian pronunciations are, apparently, closer to Elizabethan English than the current UK sounds I wouldn’t like to guess which came first the zed or the zee…