Man the english language makes no sense.
the sound in lose is the same sound as we are taught “oo” makes.
Couldn’t a more straightforward language be chosen as the global one ffs
My father (who had a PhD in English) used to tell me that “ghoti” was pronounced “fish”
GH as in rouGH
O as in wOmen
TI as in raTIon
How do you pronounce women? When I put those sounds together it makes more of a fush or fosh than fish .
Or do you say fish different than me?
Looks like loose is from Germanic/Old Norse, “laus”
And lose is from Old English, “los”
Also looks like I can’t stand to look at either of these words for a few day now.
doesn’t matter what the root is. Just conform the spelling to fit your language’s rules
There’s also loose and they sound the same but mean different things.
Loose is when your pants is too wide.
Lose is when the pants were so wide that you lost them.
Here’s a poem you might enjoy: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Silly poem showing its age,
Made has not the sound of bade,
Made totally sounds like bade
Ooh, also its accent, this is not a thing couplet for me
Discount, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward,
Nor it’s immediate predecessor,
Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which exactly rhymes with khaki.
Parquet isn’t in my vocabulary, but doesn’t seem to rhyme with khaki in any common dialect either way.
