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

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Hoes drop their clothes.

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

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

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

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        3 months ago

        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.

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      3 months ago

      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.

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

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