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

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You seem like the sort of person that would pronounce the word often with a hard T,

Not at all. Used to make fun of people who did.

yet still pronounce the letter A as if it was an O.

No - there are two sounds for A, bath (short, as in cat) for tub of usually hot water and Bath (long, as in car) for the city famous for its hot water. Never heard it like O - no, wait… RP has an O sounding A doesn’t it? Lloyd Grossman was famous for his mangling of vowel sounds.

ETA that distinction for the A sound is probably familial rather than regional; grew up with Geordie mam and Home counties dad.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_pronunciation_differences

Meanwhile, why do we pronounce cheese as cheeze?

Who threw the Z sound in there?

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Yeh cheese as cheeze is an odd one - especially considering the z is “zed” not “zee”… I guess cheese is where the idea of “zee” came from?

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Additional question…

Who decided to include the letter D in the pronunciation of the letter Z?

Zed?

Where did that come from? We don’t say it that way over here in the states, we just say zee…

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