Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•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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2 days agoMostly the “reasons” just boil down to etymology. We spell things the way the languages we stole them from spelled them.
How can the soldier knead anything if they’re made of lead?