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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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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 (lemmy.world)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Loose rhymes with noose. I can't think of a word that's spelled and pronounced like lose so you have me there.

choose lose cruise booze

all rhyme lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Words pronounced like lose? That's easy. Close

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

Close is way closer to clothes than it is to lose. And close is more like gross.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

I was joking, close would only be pronounced similar to lose if it were spelled clues.