It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking

58008@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

snooggums@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

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.

xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 days ago

tyler@programming.dev · 5 days ago

Didn’t even have to click. Great poem

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 5 days ago

I barely started reading and i hate this already.

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

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

Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone · edit-2 5 days ago

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

moistclump@lemmy.world · 5 days ago