Same reason why they keep mixing up you’re and your; or there, their, and there. It’s simple stuff, but maybe they’re non-native speakers (or probably just dumb).
what? what words like chose/choose? i struggle to think of any word similar to chose/choose/chosen. chose isnt the same tense as lose. also, choice vs loss. theyre very different.
Just in pronunciation. Usually when you put the two O’s next to each other is affects the pronunciation of the O sound, as it does in chose/choose.
But for some reason the double O in lose/loose does not change the pronunciation of the vowel at all. It instead affects the pronunciation of the S to sound either like an “unvoiced S sound” or a “voiced Z sound.”
If I told you to pronounce “Loo” then we would all agree on what that would sound like, but if I told you to add a Z sound to the end of that “Loo” then you might say “hey you spelled lose wrong, it only has one O.”
That’s the exception to the rule that I was talking about. O sounds and OO sounds are pretty straightforward but they don’t work the way you would expect in the words “lose/loose”.
I don’t know if my explanation makes any sense if you don’t already understand what I’m talking about, but this is the reason so many people on the internet misspell the word “lose”.
i just don’t know of anything besides choose that would follow that rule. i mean, theres noose. just legitimately cant think of some other examples of a word that is more like choose than lose
Honestly why can’t mofos on the Internet spell ‘loses’ correctly?….
I don’t know, but it’s annoying.
Same reason why they keep mixing up you’re and your; or there, their, and there. It’s simple stuff, but maybe they’re non-native speakers (or probably just dumb).
The spelling of “lose/loose” is the exception to the common rule that words like “chose/choose” follow.
what? what words like chose/choose? i struggle to think of any word similar to chose/choose/chosen. chose isnt the same tense as lose. also, choice vs loss. theyre very different.
Just in pronunciation. Usually when you put the two O’s next to each other is affects the pronunciation of the O sound, as it does in chose/choose.
But for some reason the double O in lose/loose does not change the pronunciation of the vowel at all. It instead affects the pronunciation of the S to sound either like an “unvoiced S sound” or a “voiced Z sound.”
If I told you to pronounce “Loo” then we would all agree on what that would sound like, but if I told you to add a Z sound to the end of that “Loo” then you might say “hey you spelled lose wrong, it only has one O.”
That’s the exception to the rule that I was talking about. O sounds and OO sounds are pretty straightforward but they don’t work the way you would expect in the words “lose/loose”.
I don’t know if my explanation makes any sense if you don’t already understand what I’m talking about, but this is the reason so many people on the internet misspell the word “lose”.
i just don’t know of anything besides choose that would follow that rule. i mean, theres noose. just legitimately cant think of some other examples of a word that is more like choose than lose
And my Lemmy app won’t let me edit my typos so it’s gonna be even harder to follow lol.
Because English orthography makes no sense.