@58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months 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-square111fedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1198arrow-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 • 8 months agomessage-square111fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresnooggumslinkfedilinkEnglish25•8 months agoDon’t get me started on ough and ead. The lead soldier kneaded dough in the bough brush while they read the book that they previously read while taking a furlough in the rough.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink3•8 months agoI barely started reading and i hate this already.
minus-square@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•8 months agoI read this and all I could think of was “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”
minus-squareJojo, Lady of the Westlinkfedilink4•edit-28 months agoHow can the soldier knead anything if they’re made of lead?
minus-square@moistclump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•8 months agohttps://youtu.be/0hGaSQyygRQ?si=chuCUpT-xXMXA18F
Don’t get me started on ough and ead.
The lead soldier kneaded dough in the bough brush while they read the book that they previously read while taking a furlough in the rough.
http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Didn’t even have to click. Great poem
I barely started reading and i hate this already.
I read this and all I could think of was “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”
How can the soldier knead anything if they’re made of lead?
https://youtu.be/0hGaSQyygRQ?si=chuCUpT-xXMXA18F