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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

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

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over_clox@lemmy.world
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_pronunciation_differences

Meanwhile, why do we pronounce cheese as cheeze?

Who threw the Z sound in there?

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HorseChandelier@lemmy.world
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Yeh cheese as cheeze is an odd one - especially considering the z is “zed” not “zee”… I guess cheese is where the idea of “zee” came from?

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over_clox@lemmy.world
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Additional question…

Who decided to include the letter D in the pronunciation of the letter Z?

Zed?

Where did that come from? We don’t say it that way over here in the states, we just say zee…

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HorseChandelier@lemmy.world
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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…

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