@58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month 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-square120fedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down129file-text
arrow-up1173arrow-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 looking@58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square120fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@over_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•1 month agoI had half my jaw ripped open when I was 16 or so. So I guess I’m lucky to pronounce or enunciate anything correctly these days. Southern Mississippi, if that means squat.
minus-square@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoYeah Mississippi will do that to you.
I had half my jaw ripped open when I was 16 or so. So I guess I’m lucky to pronounce or enunciate anything correctly these days.
Southern Mississippi, if that means squat.
Yeah Mississippi will do that to you.