‘Choose’ rhymes with ‘lose’? I mean c’mon, someone did that shit on purpose 👀

The bigger problem is that lose should rhyme with pose or close. Loose is fine.

Hoes drop their clothes.

Who the hell decided that close is pronounced the same as clothes?

They aren’t universally, just in certain dialects. I pronounce the “th” just like with “clothing.”

No one? They aren’t pronounced the same in any accent that I’m aware of.

Edit: I’m dumb. I was reading that as the “nearby” close and not the "shut " close.

You’re probably thinking of the pronunciation of close as in ‘close to you’

I was thinking of the pronunciation of close as in ‘close the door’

Which is pronounced the same as clothes.

Those still aren’t pronounced the same. The th in clothes isn’t silent.

Huh? I have lived in every corner and the middle of the United States and I have never heard anyone pronounce the TH in clothes no matter the accent. It always sounds like close as in to close the door.

Unless you are thinking of cloths, as in a pile of wash cloths.

English kinda sucks sometimes.

This is just wrong. Im canadian but think about how you would pronounce the word ‘clothe’ as in 'he can barely clothe himself" and then add an s sound. Although it is more of a ‘z’ sound abd can blend with the ‘th’ a little bit, the ‘th’ is definitely pronounced clo-th-z.

I’m American and I’ve never heard a single person ever pronounce it “close”. Listen closely and you’ll hear that the word sounds longer. That’s the pronunciation. It’s not a hard “thuh”. It’s a soft “ths”. Say the word “cloths” but use a long “o” sound rather than “awh”.

I pronounce the th sometimes, but not always, depends how fast I’m talking

I’m not sure where you’re from, but the th is indeed silent in my area regarding the word ‘clothes’. I’ve never heard it pronounced any different than ‘close’.

Now if it’s said as ‘clothing’, the th is indeed pronounced. But not for ‘clothes’. And I’ve worked at a clothing store before.

You might be thinking of the word ‘cloths’, which indeed does pronounce the th.

English is weird like that.

I’m not sure where you’re from, but the th is indeed silent in my area regarding the word ‘clothes’. I’ve never heard it pronounced any different than ‘close’.

I’m not sure where you’re from, the th in is always pronounced in my area regarding the word ‘clothes’. I’ve never heard it pronounced the same as ‘close’

I will say that people got called out for pronouncing it the same as the spice ‘cloves’.

FWIW My area = rural southern UK.

So on laundry day you put away your clo_s_ing? The rest of us have clo_th_ing.

I can edit also.

Close isn’t always pronounced the same?!

Sit close to me vs close the door

Ooh wow you’re right.

Close to me is “closs”

Close the door is “cloz”

I never noticed

I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to the differences between accents/dialects but it’s at least enough of a thing to be there in dictionaries.

Even the second one isn’t pronounced the same. Some accents drop the th sound in clothes which is why they can sound similar.

I don’t know that they sound that different, but I definitely “pronounce” them differently in that my tongue is in a different party of my mouth for both of them. When I say clothes, my tongue is near touching my front teeth, where as close is more just below that ridge behind my teeth, so farther back.

I’m from the center of the U.S. for reference.

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.

Okay as a non-native speaker who struggles with consonant clusters this is both the best and worst thing I learned today.

As a native English speaker, English is freaking weird like that.

Hey we may have our language rules pulled from 30 different other languages and applied seemingly at random, but at least we don’t have to memorize the gender of every inanimate object in the world!

I’ve taken 5 years of German and self studied some Russian and Spanish, and goddamn that gendered noun shit is really, really hard for native English speakers.

Okay you got me there. Also for what it’s worth, gendered nouns are hard even when you natively speak a language with gendered nouns. Source: Am an Arabic speaker and will Jihad anyone who says a chair is female.

At least in my dialect (US northeast) clothes and close don’t quite share a pronunciation. They’re similar enough that you could probably fully elide the th sound, and I’m not sure anyone would notice.

When I pronounce clothes I can still feel my tongue move into the th position, and hear a small difference.

They sound pretty close to me. We can close this issue.

I would lohz my shit if we had to pronounce it that way.

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.

How can the soldier knead anything if they’re made of lead?

I barely started reading and i hate this already.

Didn’t even have to click. Great poem

I read this and all I could think of was “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”

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