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Pringles@sopuli.xyz 5 days agoBeautiful, but is there really a difference in pronunciation of hose and dose? I always pronounce them similarly…
elvith@feddit.org 5 days ago
Comment on English moment
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 5 days agoBeautiful, but is there really a difference in pronunciation of hose and dose? I always pronounce them similarly…
TeddE@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Hose is pronounced /hōz/ and dose is pronounced /dōs/ in “Standard English” (which is a specific and deliberately invented dialect taught to news anchors to try to smooth out all the regional differences), actual english varies so much over time and space that both words have numerous variations - www.howtopronounce.com/hose, plus we change our inflection on words depending on where they are in a sentence - and plenty of context can change if the emphasis is on the vowel or the ending consonant: All my hoes know a hose is a hose.
Simply put - as long as people understand the ideas you’re conveying, don’t worry too much about precise spelling and punctuation - it’s literally all made up.