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If we're allowed to make modifications here then it should really be lose => looze and loose => luce

• irishcoffee 6mo ago
  I think that would make "loosely" not work out. Lucely/lucly catch the hard C there. I'm good with loozing/loozer, looks kind of funny though.
  • Zambyte 6mo ago
    I would not pronounce lucely with a hard C
  • butlike 6mo ago
    Lucezly
    • mg794613 6mo ago
      One more step, and we're in Poland.
  • kaashif 6mo ago
    Lucely absolutely does not catch the hard c. Surely there is no word in the English language where "ce" has a hard c, only loanwords like celt.
• abustamam 6mo ago
  Fun fact — English did not have formalized spelling prior to the printing press https://www.dictionary.com/articles/printing-press-frozen-spelling https://www.dictionary.com/articles/printing-press-frozen-sp... So, technically we are allowed to make modifications! We just can't expect others to adhere to our modifications :)
• taffydavid 6mo ago
  Luce is already a word in English, if a little obscure