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minus-squareNutteman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoLooks like we can thank the Dutch language for that one
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoLooks like loose is from Germanic/Old Norse, “laus” And lose is from Old English, “los” Also looks like I can’t stand to look at either of these words for a few day now.
minus-squareNutteman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoFrom my tiny amount of research eventually it passed through the Dutch layer and ended up as “loose” from those origin points before being adopted into english
minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agodoesn’t matter what the root is. Just conform the spelling to fit your language’s rules
minus-squaredcpDarkMatter@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoEnglish? Rules? We don’t do that here.
minus-squarecowfodder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoGHOTI is pronounced as “fish”.
minus-squareBuelldozer@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoDamn, I haven’t seen that one in forever.
minus-squareJustin@lemmy.jlh.namelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoKamala must change her name to commalaa
Looks like we can thank the Dutch language for that one
Looks like loose is from Germanic/Old Norse, “laus”
And lose is from Old English, “los”
Also looks like I can’t stand to look at either of these words for a few day now.
From my tiny amount of research eventually it passed through the Dutch layer and ended up as “loose” from those origin points before being adopted into english
doesn’t matter what the root is. Just conform the spelling to fit your language’s rules
English? Rules?
We don’t do that here.
GHOTI is pronounced as “fish”.
Damn, I haven’t seen that one in forever.
Kamala must change her name to commalaa