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To add to this (because the difference was really not clear to me from your suggested rhymes): The difference is in the sound of the final s. "loose" ends with
by MauranKilom 6y ago
To add to this (because the difference was really not clear to me from your suggested rhymes):
The difference is in the sound of the final s. "loose" ends with "s" from "set", whereas "lose" ends with the z from "zoo".
And while the vocal sound is the same according to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lose https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lose and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loose https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loose, I feel that there is (or can be) some difference there. Just like in "jews" vs "juice".
- buckminster 6y agoThey are shown with different pronunciations. Do you mean the recordings? They sound different to my British ear.
- vcxy 6y agoDefinitely different to my American ear as well.
- MauranKilom 6y agoI meant "the sound of the vocal" (the o vs oo), not "the spoken sound" when I said "the vocal sound".
- buckminster 6y agoThe vowel! Yes, they are the same.