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
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
'Choose' rhymes with 'lose'? I mean c'mon, someone did that shit on purpose đź‘€
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Are you familiar with “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité?
Deep breath:
I believe the generally accepted scientific term for the English language is "clusterfuck".
*kloostaphux
*clussturphuck
This guy was British, rhyming "via" with "choir"
Previous, precious; fuchsia, via; Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir
"Made" and "bade" supposedly not rhyming confused me, how is "bade" supposed to be pronounced?
It's sounds like "bad", but with a shorter "a", so like "had"
Although I guess "bade" is used nowadays as well don't know how erroneous it's considered to be.
You can here people use it here
https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=I+bade&pos=4
https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=bade&pos=4
Seemingly Americans in those clips say "bade" (rhyming with "made") but Brits say "bade" (rhymes with "had")
But they do rhyme....
Right, and the poem is written in such a way that implies they do not.
I think he was Dutch - but they do tend to speak “better” English than the English.
The difference in UK/US (amongst other first language English nations) pronunciation is something I know effects hip-hop lyricism (i.e. rapping) as different pronunciations mean some words only rhyme in your own dialect.