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

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Huh? I have lived in every corner and the middle of the United States and I have never heard anyone pronounce the TH in clothes no matter the accent. It always sounds like close as in to close the door.

    Unless you are thinking of cloths, as in a pile of wash cloths.

    English kinda sucks sometimes.

    • tyler@programming.dev
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      2 hours ago

      I’m American and I’ve never heard a single person ever pronounce it “close”. Listen closely and you’ll hear that the word sounds longer. That’s the pronunciation. It’s not a hard “thuh”. It’s a soft “ths”. Say the word “cloths” but use a long “o” sound rather than “awh”.