• Nima@leminal.space
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      6 days ago

      lose

      two O’s is loose. as in not tight.

      one O is lose. as in “you will lose”

      • caut_R@lemmy.world
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        This one‘s been spreading quite rapidly in the past few years. I wonder what happened.

        • delitomatoes@lemm.ee
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          I’ve seen it on Reddit for the past 10 years, I think Americans can’t spell

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            At first I get annoyed at people confusing the two, but I remember there’s a lot of non native English speakers. And it’s words like this that make it such a hard language to figure out.

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            I’m the one who corrected them. I’m an american. quit being weird about americans for no reason.

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            As an American you’re right. Hell, a lot of Americans can’t even speak. I now a lot of engineers that pronounce “height” as “heighth”

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      Even if they win the lawsuit the message has been sent. Any double A or triple A company can make a descent quality ripoff and get lots of money. Bonus points if they’re somewhere safe from Big N’s lawyers